payload
IPA: pˈeɪɫoʊd
noun
- That part of a cargo that produces revenue.
- The total weight of passengers, crew, equipment, and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft.
- That part of a rocket, missile, propelled stinger, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance, such as a warhead or satellite.
- (computing) The functional part of a computer virus or another type of malware program, rather than the part that spreads it.
- (communication) The actual data in a data stream.
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Examples of "payload" in Sentences
- Possible increase in payload of 15 - 20,000 pounds.
- The customized malware payload is innocuous looking, low profile, and usually avoids typical malware giveaways.
- However, if a payload is robotically operated then a risk analysis of loss of payload might be found acceptable and cheaper to lift-off.
- Since their payload is already smaller than Ares I, it will cut into Orion even more, which is what many people on here complain Ares I does.
- If you can't get your hydrogen powered upper stage all the way to orbit, you are either doing something drastically wrong on the first stage, and your payload is too heavy, or both.
- STS-118:  There are some problems with ESP-3:  the Interface Control Document normally takes 7 months to translate payload requirements into orbiter interfaces to support payload requirements.
- Despite the increase in payload of 1mT, the crew complement of Orion is down to four instead of six; requiring a minimum of two launches to fully man the ISS with its normal crew complement and rotate existing crew members; unless that is the requirement is now limited to U. S crew members.
- In the mid 1990's, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Shuttle Small Payloads Project (SSPP), home to the GAS program, realized that many student organizations struggled in developing a full payload from the ground up, i. e data systems, power systems, structures, and the experiment taking their energy away from the actual science to be achieved.
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