droneship
English
Etymology
drone + ship, 2015
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɹəʊnˌʃɪp/
Noun
droneship (plural droneships)
- A ship that can operate autonomously or telerobotically, like a drone, without a crew onboard.
- 2015, Alan Yuhas, The Guardian, 14 April 2015, SpaceX fails in third attempt to land reusable Falcon 9 rocket on barge,
- Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival […]
- 2016, Video Shows SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Droneship, Then Fall Over and Explode, Space.com, 18 January 2016
- SpaceX also attempted droneship rocket landings several times in 2015 in the Atlantic Ocean, but was unsuccessful. […]
- 2016, Nick Lucchesi, It Took SpaceX These 6 Times to Perfect a Droneship Landing, Inverse: Life in Space, 6 May 2016
- In the very early hours of Friday morning, a high-velocity Falcon 9 rocket landed successfully on a SpaceX droneship in the Atlantic, making history as the first such mission to do so. […]
- 2017, Jackie Wattles, SpaceX makes history: it launched a used rocket and then landed it in the ocean, CNN, 31 March 2017
- […] the rocket then returned to Earth and landed on a remotely piloted platform, known as a droneship […]
- 2015, Alan Yuhas, The Guardian, 14 April 2015, SpaceX fails in third attempt to land reusable Falcon 9 rocket on barge,
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