droneship

English

Etymology

drone + ship, 2015

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹəʊnˌʃɪp/

Noun

droneship (plural droneships)

1. A ship that can operate autonomously or telerobotically, like a drone, without a crew onboard.
   • 2015, Alan Yuhas, The Guardian, 14 April 2015, SpaceX fails in third attempt to land reusable Falcon 9 rocket on barge,^[1]

     Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival […]

   • 2016, Video Shows SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Droneship, Then Fall Over and Explode, Space.com, 18 January 2016‎^[2]:

     SpaceX also attempted droneship rocket landings several times in 2015 in the Atlantic Ocean, but was unsuccessful. […]

   • 2016 May 6, Nick Lucchesi, It Took SpaceX These 6 Times to Perfect a Droneship Landing, Inverse: Life in Space:

     In the very early hours of Friday morning, a high-velocity Falcon 9 rocket landed successfully on a SpaceX droneship in the Atlantic, making history as the first such mission to do so. […]

   • 2017 March 31, Jackie Wattles, “SpaceX makes history: it launched a used rocket and then landed it in the ocean”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     […] the rocket then returned to Earth and landed on a remotely piloted platform, known as a droneship […]

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