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unmanned spacecraft comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has crew	has definition
artificial satellite	satellite		a satellite made by humans which is gravitationaly bound and in orbit of a larger physical object
unmanned spacecraft	artificial satellite	none	an artificial satellite without a crew

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