The word “mothership” is correct and can be used in written English.
It is generally used as a metaphor to describe a central, powerful entity in a particular group or organization, such as an overarching headquarters or the most influential person in a group. For example, “The company president is the mothership of the entire organization.”.
Philae was released from its mothership Rosetta on Wednesday morning and landed on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko shortly after 4pm GMT, having travelled more than six billion kilometres.
It's like a cheese dream on a mothership.
George Clinton was as political as anyone, but Funkadelic's solution was to leave earth entirely, build a psychedelic mothership and blast off into space to start again on a new planet overflowing with dolphins and LSD.
In April, as part of a mission by SpaceX, an American company, to resupply the ISS, a small mothership was placed in orbit carrying 104 "sprites" (pictured below).
Unfortunately, due to a fault with a timer, the mothership failed to release them before it burned up on re-entry.
It is an understated offering when compared to the bold shapes of the Guggenheim Bilbao or the seductive curves of the Pompidou-Metz.The museum's permanent display will be in the spectacular Galerie du Temp, a 120m-long space containing a 5,500-year 5,500-yearllustimeliney 205 artefacts gleaned from the mothershillustrated.
(The KickSat mothership produced basic signals, which were recorded around the globe).The preprogrammed messages ranged from the prosaic "Hello!" to the lofty Latin phrase, "Aut Vincere Aut Mori".
Surprised when the interior of the mothership turns out to closely resemble a General Motors motorhome, Mr Shermer consents to lying down.
And while the sprite deployment failed, the project was largely a success, as sprites tested out correctly on earth and the mothership functioned and provided accurate telemetry.With the uptick in the last year of CubeSat launches and the availability of slots, future students may cycle through from funding to launch in a matter of two to three years from conception to data acquisition.
It eschews the traditional long, thin, disposable rocket (the approach adopted by both SpaceX and Orbital) in favour of a reusable aeroplane that is launched in mid-air from a much larger mothership.
They were launched on board a larger mothership, the Orbiting Picosat Automated Launcher (OPAL), which is currently circling the earth at an altitude of 640km (about 400 miles).
