: not carrying or performed by people : having no crew
an uncrewed flight
uncrewed spacecraft
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The space station is well-provisioned, with uncrewed spacecraft routinely launching on resupply missions.
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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
To retrieve the nodules, mining firms plan to send uncrewed collector vehicles down to the bottom of the ocean.
—Daniel Ackerman, NPR, 27 Mar. 2025
Instead the ship left the station and splashed down uncrewed, leaving Wilmore and Williams to join the station rotation, living and working aboard the ISS until a fresh SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft arrived to take them home.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Mar. 2025
SpaceX's eighth Starship flight test on Thursday resulted in an explosion, the second of such uncrewed tests since January.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2025
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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
To retrieve the nodules, mining firms plan to send uncrewed collector vehicles down to the bottom of the ocean.
—Daniel Ackerman, NPR, 27 Mar. 2025
Instead the ship left the station and splashed down uncrewed, leaving Wilmore and Williams to join the station rotation, living and working aboard the ISS until a fresh SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft arrived to take them home.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Mar. 2025
SpaceX's eighth Starship flight test on Thursday resulted in an explosion, the second of such uncrewed tests since January.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Uncrewed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncrewed. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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