How to Use uncrewed in a Sentence

uncrewed

adjective
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  • The Artemis 1 mission to the Moon is uncrewed—at least in space.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Many more missions, both uncrewed and crewed, are in the works.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2024
  • At the time, the uncrewed Orion spacecraft was more than halfway to the moon.
    — Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The uncrewed Chang’e 6 mission blasted off on May 2 and landed on the far side of the moon on June 2.
    — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • One of the most famous uncrewed systems of the war has been Kyiv’s Sea Baby drones.
    — Justin Ling, WIRED, 2 May 2024
  • The program’s first mission, Artemis I, sent an uncrewed spacecraft around the moon and back in 2022.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The plane, as an uncrewed weapon, had no human pilot on board.
    — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
  • An only partly successful uncrewed test flight in 2019 saw the ship get to space but fail to dock with the ISS.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 June 2024
  • That may come in the form of uncrewed land vehicles, which could crash through Russian lines and clear the dense minefields in its way.
    — Justin Ling, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
  • At the end of last year, the space agency launched its Artemis 1 mission, in which an uncrewed Orion spacecraft traveled to the moon and back.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The uncrewed test flight was part of Nasa’s Artemis mission, which plans to send the first woman and first person of color to the moon as early as 2025.
    — Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The second Houthi uncrewed aircraft was hit by the frigate's naval gun, in what was the ship's first combat since its deployment to the Red Sea last month.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
  • Russia has launched uncrewed spacecraft to the Moon’s south pole — its first lunar mission in 47 years.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Artemis 1 is planned as an uncrewed flight around the moon to test the rocket and the Orion crew capsule before flights with astronauts.
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 12 Oct. 2022
  • This iteration is designed to be used for uncrewed test flights, at least until the end of 2024.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Artemis 1 was an uncrewed test of the equipment that will be used on the crewed Artemis 2 and Artemis 3 missions, the latter of which will bring astronauts to the lunar surface.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2022
  • In his last voyage, the expedition used an uncrewed submersible to scan 5,200 square miles of ocean floor.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Boeing has already had to repeat one test mission, an uncrewed test flight that took off in 2019.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
  • That makes this type of robot something quite new, an uncrewed weapon able to take ground, and potentially to hold that ground.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The uncrewed launch is scheduled to occur today during a 20-minute window that opens at 8 a.m. ET.
    — NBC News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • India and other countries have landed uncrewed craft on the moon in recent years as well.
    — Linah Mohammad, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • Russia launched the uncrewed lunar vehicle last Wednesday in an effort to land the first spacecraft on the moon's south pole.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 20 Aug. 2023
  • An uncrewed Starliner mission in 2019 failed to reach the station, in part due to faulty flight computer code.
    — Brendan Byrne, NPR, 5 June 2024
  • Another question is whether this will be an uncrewed or a crewed mission.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Fifteen of the uncrewed drones were intercepted, along with at least 29 cruise missiles of varying types, Ukraine said.
    — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Any hostile air force looking to get around the jamming will need to attack the Reaper, which as an uncrewed plane is more expendable than a crewed fighter.
    — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
  • Ukraine has dispatched one-way uncrewed boat drones with onboard explosives to attack Russian ships in the Black Sea.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Kamikaze Drone Boats Ukraine’s uncrewed surface vessels.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Sunday’s launch was Blue Origin’s first tourism flight since an uncrewed rocket’s engine failed during a flight a year and a half ago, per the Washington Post.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2024
  • The most important initial step is to evaluate the threat of uncrewed aerial platforms to the business, which leads us to the second pillar of this approach—education.
    — Bill Edwards, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024

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