Thesaurus results for PAYLOADS

payloads

noun

plural of payload

as in loads

a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported the space shuttle can carry a maximum payload of approximately 50,000 pounds

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Recent Examples of payloads Blue Ghost is designed to deliver 10 NASA payloads. —

Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2026 Though that mission is primarily a technology demonstrator, Delphi will carry a number of payloads up (and back down to Earth). —

Mike Wall, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2026 By combining the guidance kit with different bomb bodies, militaries can create several JDAM variants with different payloads and effects. —

Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 8 Mar. 2026 Now, nearly 7 full years later, there are over 17,000 active and defunct satellite payloads in orbit, with approximately 100 times as many satellites proposed in the coming years. —

Big Think, 7 Mar. 2026 The robotic arm, known as Canadarm, was used to deploy, maneuver, and capture payloads for the astronauts. —

IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026 Vulcan may finally be on the cusp of delivering for the Space Force, but there are several military payloads in the queue to launch on Vulcan before GPS III SV-08, which was complete and in storage at its Lockheed Martin factory in Colorado. —

Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2025 Both rockets released their payloads—think ion guages, magnetometers, and vapor chasers; the latter released colorful puffs of gas—during an auroral substorm. —

Michael D'estries, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2025 Under Musk’s leadership, SpaceX reduced the cost of launching payloads to orbit by a factor of ten. —

Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025

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This approach allows for ramping up or down instantly to maintain high efficiency across varying loads and perfectly match the natural, fluctuating power profile of the sun and wind.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Mar. 2026
The Type 00 gave Jaguar loads of new identity—being large, distinctive-looking, and very pink—but that identity wasn’t a universal hit with the purists, which is probably why Jaguar persisted anyway.

— Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2026