Skylab
[ skahy-lab ]
/ ˈskaɪˌlæb /
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noun
a U.S. earth-orbiting space station that was periodically staffed by three separate crews of astronauts and remained in orbit 1973–79.
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How to use Skylab in a sentence
NASA’s 77-ton Skylab space station was something of a wake-up call—its widely watched uncontrolled deorbit in 1979 led to large debris hitting Western Australia.
A Chinese rocket is falling back to Earth—but we don’t know where it will land|Neel V. Patel|May 7, 2021|MIT Technology ReviewPower for Skylab, Science News, July 4, 1970The largest solar cell array system for electrical power ever devised for a spacecraft is now being completed….
50 years ago, NASA prepared to launch America’s first space station|Maria Temming|July 20, 2020|Science News
British Dictionary definitions for Skylab
Skylab
/ (ˈskaɪˌlæb) /
noun
a US space station launched in May 1973 into an orbit inclined at 50° to the equatorial plane at a mean altitude of 430 kilometres (270 miles), the astronauts working there under conditions of zero gravity. It disintegrated, unmanned, in 1979, with some parts landing in the outback of Australia
Word Origin for Skylab
C20: from sky + lab (oratory)
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