Spacecraft

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Spacecraft is a generic term used to describe all vehicles that are designed to fly in space. Normally this would apply to vehicles that reach orbit. However, spacecraft is also used to describe vehicles that reach space, normally defined as 100,000 meters altitude, on a sub-orbital flight.

A satellite is an unmanned vehicles that orbit the earth, or other space body.

Classes of Spacecraft

Manned Spacecraft

Earth Orbit Satellites

Lunar Probes

Planetary Probes

Interplanetary Probes

Sounding Rockets

Spacecraft in Literature & Art

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