What is "onboard"

Usage examples of "onboard".

It came in stereo, as I was still transmitting, and had just coded back into the onboard net.

What Bravais quickly discovers is a conspiracy by aliens and their human confederates to harvest brains as onboard guidance units for weapons in an interstellar war.

Het Masteen stood at the locus of a circle of organic control diskeys -- displays from the fiber-optic nerves running throughout the ship, holo displays from onboard, astern, and ahead of the treeship, a communicator nexus to put him in touch with the Templars standing duty with the ergs, in the singularity containment core, at the drive roots, and elsewhere, and the central holo-simulacrum of the treeship itself, which he could touch with his long fingers to call up interactives or change headings.

Only the geosynchronous communication platform and civil spaceflight traffic monitoring satellites remained active, their onboard processors sending out monotonously regular signals.

The onboard array lacks the diagnostic facilities to make a detailed analysis.

It had docked an hour after their arrival onboard the Quito Shuttle and boosted for the leading Earth-Sun Lagrangian point shortly thereafter.

It had sailed from Ban for Sarande, a port tucked deep into a pocket of the Albanian coast, and Alan and Dukas had waited to buy tickets until they were sure that Donnie Marengo was onboard and had locked himself into his one-person stateroom.

He mentions that on one expedition the famous Captain Cook had onboard a Tahitian named Tupaia who, apart from being the island chief, was also a navigator priest.

The assignment was given to an overworked and underpaid technician whose job was to communicate with one of the astronavigators, and translate his instructions into code for the onboard computers on the three spacecraft.

Moving carefully and with many pauses, he extricated himself from between the couches, turned toward the fax, and pulled up a hypercomputer interface beside it so he could search the onboard libraries for a suitable painkiller.

The ones which had launched were doing their best, but once their missiles were expended they would have only their single onboard laser mounts, because there would no longer be any hangar decks to rearm them.

Soon it will be time for our sisters onboard the shuttles to take the news back to the Hundred Isles of Home that our daughters are forever safe.

Even then, he might not have managed it if the Andies hadn't been forced to cycle in fresh drones to replace them as they exhausted their onboard power.

Even before the onboard computer identified them as biologics, he knew they were sperm whales: females hosting a couple of calves, migrating south from Nova Scotia or even farther north to mating areas in the Bahamas, where some big, feisty males were doubtless waiting for them.

Everything she had heard about Boba Fett, from her time back in Jabba's palace to here onboard the stolen Hound's Tooth, listening to Dengar's tale of the disintegration of the old Bounty Hunters Guild and its ugly aftermath, had reinforced the impression she'd already had of him.