WordNet
n. a manned artificial satellite in a fixed orbit designed for scientific research [syn: space station, space platform]
Usage examples of "space laboratory".
The Navy announced that its new rocket, designed to reach Mars next year, will be changed for use as a deep-space laboratory on tentative exploratory trips before going further.
The Russian Salyut space laboratory is not scheduled to be launched for at least another five hours.
With numb, clumsy hands Troy worked his way into the bulky suit, an ancient Earth design to keep him pressurized and protected during the brief orbital sled ride over to the space laboratory.
They maintain that projects like Skylab, NASA's wide-ranging space laboratory launched in 1973, with its highly sensitive multi-spectral scanning system, will be vital in the location of desperately needed information on crop growth, mineral deposits, and atmosphere pollution in the battle to preserve our precious supplies.
That's why the ship we're going to build as a testing laboratory-we'll need a space laboratory now, and it'll cost you five millions, Spence, my boy-will have a huge bank of these new storage devices.