Sentence examples for space freighters from inspiring English sources

Today's Soyuz launching carried only 2.5 tons of supplies in addition to the crew, and pilotless Russian Progress space freighters also can carry only 2.5 tons of cargo.

The plan announced Thursday calls for launching a space lab and collecting samples from the moon, all by 2016, along with a more powerful manned spaceship and space freighters.

How they cope is up to them; they can become traders, touching down on planets and gathering resources to sell; they can be pirates, blasting space freighters to pieces to steal their stock.

To lay that groundwork, the paper said, China "will launch space laboratories, manned spaceship and space freighters; make breakthroughs in and master space station key technologies, including astronauts' medium-term stay, regenerative life support and propellant refueling; conduct space applications to a certain extent and make technological preparations for the construction of space stations".

Unless we want to wait until that time when we too can dispatch space freighters to black holes, perhaps we should consider whether we want to consider using an energy technology that produces such lethal waste.

Although the Progress cargo ship has a good track record, this is the second loss of a robotic space freighter in the past six months.

In its opening sections, Alien rattles, seemingly aimlessly, around a utilitarian space freighter (the Nostromo) and introduces us to its bickering seven-member crew, John Hurt and Ian Holm among them.

It is named Columbia and is a versatile space freighter that is the size of a DC-9 and capable of housing a crew of 7 astronauts for a month in orbit, and of carrying in its capacious cargo bay anything from satellites, equipment for experiments, or a small laboratory to the components of a space station or some other large space structure.

In fact, I enjoyed it a great deal: the jokes seemed less puerile than I'd feared and, while a show set in a deep space freighter can't exactly be packed with current references, Red Dwarf X doesn't feel as dated as recent AbFab episodes.

The film has a £120m budget and it has been reported that the interior of Han Solo's space freighter, the Millennium Falcon, has been rebuilt at London's Pinewood studios ready for filming in May, while Anthony Daniels has hinted he will again provide the voice of robot C-3P0.

It is, presumably, easier for a gentleman of advanced years to pilot a technologically advanced space freighter through an asteroid field than it might be for him to outpace giant rolling boulders and leap desperately out of the way of booby-trapped spears.