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

SpaceX aims to launch one million satellites operating as data centers using its Starship rocket, which the company said will soon achieve launch rates of one flight per hour carrying 200 tons of payload.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 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

We hoped it would help with tracking, but it also meant we’d introduced a half-pound payload.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam