Wiktionary
n. a spacecraft
WordNet
n. a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun [syn: spacecraft, ballistic capsule]
Wikipedia
A space vehicle is a rocket-powered vehicle used to transport unmanned satellites or humans between the Earth's surface and outer space. The earliest space vehicles were expendable launch systems, consisting of rocket launch vehicles carrying spacecraft payloads (satellites or human-bearing space capsules) which were relatively small portions of the total vehicle size and mass. The single or multistage rocket without the payload is referred to as a launch vehicle. Most space vehicles in production use are expendable systems, although reusable launch systems have been envisioned since the late 1960s.
Usage examples of "space vehicle".
It started out black, but as the camera angle pulled back it was clear it was being filmed from some type of space vehicle.
The Astro-Meteor, Bud explained, was the name of the space vehicle which would make the flight to Venus, after being hurled aloft by the Astrodyne booster.
Its snappy title was 'Space Vehicle Discovery: Anomalous Orbital Behavior'.
Probably the protective aluminum shroud needed for atmospheric flight, but unnecessary weight for a space vehicle.
The roof of what otherwise would be a passenger compartment held a large telescope/camera assembly used to inspect Soviet space vehicle,.
He or she will be the only human child that was ever conceived inside an extraterrestrial space vehicle.
It was much cheaper to put heavy payloads into orbit with a BDB than with a manned space vehicle like the old Shuttle or the VStar.
Kris suggested as yet more people swarmed across the field to set eyes on the space vehicle.
Bram could feel the differential in the tug between his head and his feet, but it was no worse than the second-rate artificial gravity to be found in a spinning space vehicle that happened to have a diameter of only forty or fifty feet.
It was three hundred meters long, and about as basic as any space vehicle could get.
The center controls all military space vehicle and shuttle flights as well as satellite monitoring programs.