payload
noun
- the bomb load, warhead, cargo, or passengers of an aircraft, a rocket, missile, etc., for delivery at a target or destination.
- the total complement of equipment carried by a spacecraft for the performance of a particular mission in space.
- the explosive energy of the warhead of a missile or of the bomb load of an aircraft: a payload of 50 megatons.
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Contemporary Examples of payload
There is, of course, cheapness to be considered -- the dollar per kilogram bill for putting a payload into low earth orbit.
The X-37B has a payload bay about the size of a pickup truck bed.
According to the Israeli press, the Eitan can fly for 20 straight hours and carry a payload of one ton.
Historical Examples of payload
And I have only about twice the fuel supply you carry for a 100-ton payload.
Atom DriveCharles Louis Fontenay
All the wrecks nest there while waiting hopefully for a payload or a grubstake.
Turnover PointAlfred Coppel
"We could have postponed recovering the payload and helped you," Scotty said reproachfully.
The Flying StingareeHarold Leland Goodwin
Once the initial shock had passed, the body became an object only, a thing, a payload he had to deliver.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves TownCory Doctorow
But those landing rockets and Lieutenant Commander Brown constituted all its payload.
Space TugMurray Leinster