Space-based

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Based in (or beginning from) space (especially in orbit, but sometimes on a planet or moon).

    "While this study focuses on the implications of space-based global strike for future U.S. military capabilities, its fundamental objective is to provoke a debate within the U.S. defense establishment[…]"

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"In a time when women were discouraged from studying math and science, Roman became a research astronomer and was instrumental in taking NASA's Hubble Space Telescope from an idea to reality and establishing NASA’s program of space-based astronomical observatories."

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