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• n  the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
• n  goods carried by a large vehicle

• The payload is the area of most significant potential difference between rockets and ballistic missiles.
• M-11--280-km range800-kg payload Hatf-1--80-km to 100-km range500-kg payload Shaheen-1--750-km range500-kg payload Medium-range Ghauri-1--1,300-km range700-kg payload.
• Short-range M-11--280-km range800-kg payload Hatf-1--80-km to 100-km range500-kg payload Shaheen-1--750-km range500-kg payload.

• warhead
• load
• cargo
• lading
• freight
• loading
• shipment
• consignment

News & Articles

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• NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 10 June 2013
  New Status: Light Microscopy Module (LMM) Configuration: Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Cassidy completed the LMM reconfiguration for the next use of the Fluids and Combustion Facility (FCF) for the Advanced Colloids Experiment (ACE) payload.
  June 11, 2013 - SpaceRef
• Trimble Acquires Actronic Technologies to Extend its Machine Monitoring and Reporting Solutions for the Connected Site
  SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that it has acquired privately-held Actronic Holdings Limited of Auckland, New Zealand. Actronic Technologies is a leading provider of weighing technology and payload information systems for...
  June 11, 2013 - PR Newswire
• Algeta to evaluate novel Targeted Thorium Conjugate (TTC) based on Avipep's Avibody platform
  OSLO, NORWAY--(Marketwired - Jun 11, 2013) - Algeta ASA ( OSE : ALGETA ) announces a collaboration with Australian biotechnology company Avipep Pty Ltd to evaluate a novel Targeted Thorium Conjugate (TTC) based on combining Algeta's proprietary thorium-227 alpha-pharmaceutical payload with an AvibodyT from Avipep that targets a number of different solid tumor types.
  June 11, 2013 - Marketwire

Quotes

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• Mike Fossum in FOXNews
  The most challenging thing tomorrow is going to be just the choreography, going back and forth in the payload bay,Fossum said. "It's quite a ballet."
• Tom LaSorda in BusinessWeek
  When you think of the Dodge Ram heavy duty pickup truck, you usually think of power, lots of torque and the ability to carry a big payload,said Tom LaSorda, chief executive of DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler Group.
• Brent Jett in Brooks Bulletin
  We were not very concerned,Jett said after landing. "We just assumed whatever objects came out had come from the payload bay. What we were trying to do is make the folks on the ground comfortable."