payload

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“That cannot be right,” Livingston Holder, a former manned spaceflight engineer with the Air Force and space shuttle payload specialist, recalled thinking when he first heard that fact.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

It marks "our largest payload that we have launched to date," Martijn Van Delden, head of commercial development for Europe at Amazon Leo, told AFP.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

Veronica Viera, the company's payload operations lead, shows us an image that the satellite beamed back from space.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

“These benefit if any version of orbital compute/space power ramps—because they sell the bus, payload integration, comms, and space-qualified components,” says Tuttle.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025

The Enola Gay dropped its payload, the uranium bomb christened Little Boy.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik