Spacecraft. A Vehicle designed for Spaceflight
A vehicle designed for spaceflight is called a spacecraft. When the spacecraft travels on a sub-orbital flight, the vehicle travels to the outer-space and returns to Earth without taking a full orbit.
On the other hand, a spacecraft taking an orbital space flight completes the orbiting of the Earth before returning to the planetary surface.
Spacecrafts may be of two types, one that carries people as its crews or passengers, and the other is the robotic spacecraft which is controlled by either autonomously or tele-robotically.
The use of robotic spacecrafts are of two types, the one which leaves just vicinity of the Earth are called space probes, and the other which remain in orbit of the Earth are called artificial satellites.
There are quite a few uses of spacecraft that goes into the outer space. They are used for several purposes, which would include communication, meteorological assessments, warfare, navigation, planetary exploration, and many more.
Depending upon the purpose for which a spacecraft has been built, the vehicle may consist of several sub-systems, which are applicable to the mission profile of the spacecraft. Few of the important sub-assemblies are briefly discussed below.
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