Spacecraft
固体发动机
Solid rocket motor
A motor whose fuel and oxidiser are solid.
Simple and storable, but low Isp and hard to throttle.
Related terms
- Hubble Space Telescope — An optical telescope launched in 1990, still operating.
- Starlink — SpaceX's low-orbit communications constellation, thousands strong.
- Satellite — Anything, natural or artificial, orbiting a body.
- Payload — Whatever a rocket carries: a satellite, a crew vehicle, an experiment.