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

But a space launch system doesn’t include a re-entry vehicle with heat shielding that could protect a potential nuclear payload over an intercontinental distance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 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

India's space agency launched its heaviest ever payload on Wednesday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling the deployment "a significant stride" for the space sector.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

Capsule weight, astronaut weight, payload weight—each pound required more fuel, and the fuel added weight as well.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson