unpiloted

adjective

un·​pi·​lot·​ed ˌən-ˈpī-lə-təd How to pronounce unpiloted (audio)
: having no pilot on board
an unpiloted aircraft/flight
They argue that the future belongs to unpiloted submersibles …David Malakoff

Examples of unpiloted in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web While the leak used to be releasing about a pound of air each day, that rate increased to a little over two pounds a day in early February, roughly a week before the unpiloted Progress 87 cargo mission launched to the ISS on February 14 and docked on February 17. Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024 Blue Origin has launched 32 space tourists to date, including Bezos, along with multiple unpiloted cargo missions. William Harwood, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2024 Plan to send astronauts to the moon NASA launched the Artemis program's first test flight, Artemis 1, in November 2022, using the agency's powerful Space Launch System heavy lift rocket to send an unpiloted Orion crew capsule on a flight around the moon and back. William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2024 The billionaire entrepreneur made history by being part of the first unpiloted suborbital flight with an all-civilian crew. NBC News, 20 July 2021 An initial, unpiloted around-the-moon test flight — Artemis I — was successfully launched last November and NASA hopes to launch four astronauts on a similar flight, Artemis II, in late 2024 or early 2025. William Harwood, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2023 Then SpaceX plans to fly an unpiloted demonstration mission to land Starship on the Moon, ahead of the first crew flight. Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023 The historic launch was the first unpiloted suborbital flight with all civilian passengers, and the first crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. NBC News, 20 July 2021 Indian officials plan more tests of the launch abort system next year, along with an unpiloted Gaganyaan mission into orbit. Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1641, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unpiloted was in 1641

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“Unpiloted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unpiloted. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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