Meaning of planetship | Babel Free

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A spacecraft for relatively short journeys in the vicinity of a planet.

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“If an interstellar flight belongs in the category of very slow flight, the corresponding starship is converted into a planetship for rapid flights within the solar system.”

“This was not a spaceship with its stern half broader than the bows and with high stabilizer ribs. Judging by the sharp bows and slim hull it must have⟳ been a planetship hut its contours differed in the thick ring⟳ at the stern and the long, distaff-shaped structure⟳ on top.”

“And to cap it all, there's a planetship full of important politicians in orbit around Mars unable to land⟳ while this crisis is with us.”

“The space vehicle came to be understood as an engineered techno-ecology that allowed for short-term excursions, but the actual goal was to build⟳ systems that would allow⟳ the expected “planetships” to travel⟳ into orbit, to the Moon, to Mars, and one day even further out, into the galaxy.”

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