Zvezda
Proper noun
Meaning
Zvezda
village in Targovishte Province, Bulgaria
Examples
Aft view showing a Progress spacecraft docked to Zvezda The expansion schedule was interrupted by the Space Shuttle 102 disaster in 2003, with the resulting two year hiatus in the Space Shuttle programme halting station assembly.
Chaney, pp. 444-445 Interestingly, the same issue of Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) that announced Zhukov's return also reported that he had been relieved of his duties.
As a passive "target" vehicle, the Zvezda maintained a stationkeeping orbit as the Zarya-Unity vehicle performed the rendezvous and docking via ground control and the Russian automated rendezvous and docking system.
Hygiene Space toilet in the Zvezda Service Module Showers on space stations were introduced in the early 1970s on Skylab and Salyut 3. Benson, Charles Dunlap and William David Compton.
For improved pilot survivability the Ka-50 is fitted with a NPP Zvezda (transl.
On 12 July 2000 Zvezda was launched into orbit.