BOILERPLATE

Boilerplate

A boilerplate spacecraft, also known as a DemoSat or mass simulator, is a nonfunctional craft or payload which is used to test various configurations and basic size, load, and handling characteristics of rocket launch vehicles. It is far less expensive to build multiple, full-scale, non-functional boilerplate spacecraft than it is to develop the full system . In this way, boilerplate spacecraft allow components and aspects of cutting-edge aerospace projects to be tested while detailed contracts for the final project are being negotiated. These tests may be used to develop procedures for mating a spacecraft to its launch vehicle, ...

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boilerplate

Noun

  1. A sheet of steel used in the construction of a boiler.
  2. The rating-plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the (UK) Boiler Explosions Act (1882)
  3. A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements.
  4. Standard text or program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor; text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels.
    They put that boilerplate on all the warning labels.

Adjective

  1. Describing text of a standard or routine nature.
    The contract contained all the usual boilerplate clauses.
  2. Used to describe a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures.
    A boilerplate spacecraft was used to test the rocket


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