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Definition — UK Military List

Spacecraft

"Spacecraft" means a craft designed to operate in, persist in or transit through space in the form of a "satellite", "space probe", or "space vehicle"; Note: "Spacecraft" does not include landers, rovers, or other craft, limited by design to operate on or beneath the surface of, or in the atmosphere of an extra- terrestrial celestial body, or "sub-orbital craft" .