Spacecraft

English

Noun

Spacecraft (plural spacecraft or spacecrafts)

1. A vehicle that travels through space.

Thesaurus

ATDA, ATS, Alouette, Anna, Apollo, Ariel, Atlas-Score, Biosatellite, Comsat, Cosmos, Courier, Diapason, Discoverer, ERS, Early Bird, Earth insertion, Echo, Elektron, Explorer, GATV, Gemini, Injun, Intelsat, LEM, LM, Lofti, Luna, Lunar Orbiter, Lunik, Mariner, Mars probes, Mercury, Midas, Nimbus, OAO, OGO, OSO, Pageos, Pegasus, Pioneer, Proton, Ranger, Relay, Samos, San Marco, Secor, Sputnik, Surveyor, Syncom, Telstar, Transit, Vanguard, Viking, Voskhod, WRESAT, Zond, apogee, artificial satellites, attitude-control rocket, ballistic capsule, burn, capsule, deep-space ship, docking, docking maneuver, ferry rocket, fuel ship, injection, insertion, lunar excursion module, lunar module, manned rocket, module, moon ship, multistage rocket, orbit, parking orbit, perigee, reentry, rocket, shuttle rocket, soft landing, space capsule, space docking, space rocket, spaceship

Etymology

space +‎ craft.

Translations

vehicle that travels through space

Arabic: سفينة فضائية (safína faḍā’íyya), مركبة فضائية (márkaba faḍāʼíyya) Bengali: কাশযান (bn) Catalan: nau espacial (ca) Chinese: 太空船 (tàikōngchuán), 飛船, 飞船 (fēichuán), 宇宙飛船, 宇宙飞船 (yǔzhòu fēichuán) Dutch: ruimtetuig (nl) n., ruimtevaartuig (nl) Finnish: avaruusalus (fi) French: vaisseau spatial (fr) m. Georgian: კოსმოსური ხომალდი (ka) German: Raumfahrzeug (de), Raumschiff (de) Greek: διαστημόπλοιο (el) (diastimóploio) n. Gujarati: અંતરિક્ષયાન (gu) Hebrew: חללית (he), ספינת-חלל (he) Hindi: अंतरिक्ष यान (hi) Hungarian: űreszköz (hu) Icelandic: geimfar (is) Indonesian: pesawat luar angkasa, pesawat ruang angkasa Interlingua: astronave, vehiculo spatial, nave spatial Irish: spásárthach (ga) Italian: nave spaziale (it), astronave (it) Japanese: 宇宙船 (うちゅうせん, uchūsen), 宇宙機 (うちゅうき, uchūki), 宇宙旅行船 (うちゅうりょこうせん, uchūryokōsen)

Khmer: តារាយាន (km) (taaraa yien) Korean: 우주선 (ujuseon) Lao: ຍານອາວະກາດ (lo) Latvian: kosmosa kuģis (lv) Lithuanian: erdvėlaivis (lt) Low Saxon: Ruumschipp (nds) n., Ruumfohrtüüg (nds) n. Luxembourgish: Raumschëff (lb) Macedonian: вселенски брод (mk) (vsélenski brod) m. Malay: kapal angkasa lepas (ms) Maltese: vettura spazjali  (mt) Maori: waka ātea (mi) Mongolian: сансрын хөлөг  (mn) Norwegian: romskip (no) Persian: فضاپیما (fazapeima) Polish: statek kosmiczny (pl) Portuguese: nave espacial (pt), astronave (pt) Romanian: navă cosmică (ro) Russian: космический корабль (ru) (kosmíčeskij korábl’) m. Spanish: nave espacial (es), astronave (es) Swedish: rymdfarkost (sv) c. Volapük: stelanaf, levalanaf (vo), lespadanaf (vo), kosmonaf (vo), sinaf (vo)

Synonyms

• spaceship
• space shuttle

Notes

• The standard plural form is "spacecraft", however spacecrafts is quite common.