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Payloads<br />

- 4-<br />

The Payload is the revenue-producing portion of a spacecraft load, e.g.,<br />

passengers and cargo such as scientific experiments, TV transmitters, earth<br />

observation equipment like pho<strong>to</strong> cameras, etc.<br />

<strong>Spacecraft</strong>s<br />

<strong>Spacecraft</strong> is the collective name of devices, which are designed <strong>to</strong> be<br />

placed in<strong>to</strong> space, comprising earth satellites, interplanetary and trans-solar<br />

types of space probes. <strong>Spacecraft</strong> can be manned or unmanned.

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