| SPUTNIK | Any of a series of unmanned Soviet satellites, the first launched in 1957 (7) |
| LANDSAT | The byname of Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS), any of a series of uncrewed U.S. scientific satellites, the first of which were launched in 1972, 1975, and 1978 to collect information about |
| MILITARYDRONES | Deliverers of unmanned strikes |
| ELARA | Satellite the French sent up on Ariane (not III, V or VI) |
| MARINER | The name for any of a series of ten uncrewed U.S. space probes sent to the vicinities of Venus, Mars, and Mercury between 1962 and 1973. The first was launched July 22, 1962, but was destroyed shortly |
| CRUSADE | Any of a series of Christian expeditionary wars undertaken during the 11th-13th Centuries (7) |
| PIRANHA | Fishy series, first launched by Joe Dante and Roger Corman in 1978 (7) |
| TRABANT | East German car launched in 1957 that was built at Zwickau (7) |
| SALYUT | One of a series of Soviet earth-orbiting space stations, first launched in 1971. (6) |
| DREADNOUGHT | A battleship armed with heavy guns of uniform calibre, first launched in the early 20th Century (11) |
| VOSTOK | Series of manned Soviet spacecraft first launched in 1961 (6) |
| SATELLITE | Sputnik, launched in 1957, was the first artificial such orbiting body of the Earth |
| AGE | Space ___ (era that started with the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik in 1957) |
| LUNA | ___ moth, a large, pale green saturniid of North America, or any of a series of Soviet probes to the Moon from 1959 to 1976 (4) |
| TIANGONG | Name for any of a series of three Chinese space stations, the first of which was launched on September 29, 2011. (8) |
| PERSIL | Brand name laundry detergent first launched in Germany in 1907 (6) |
| CDPLAYERS | Car accessories first launched in 1984, or a hint for answers to asterisked clues (9) |
| TASSE | Any of a series of jointed metal plates forming a skirtlike protection of armor for the lower trunk and thighs |
| NUTSHELL | Covering of an acorn or culinary seed such as a pistachio; novel by Ian McEwan; or, any of a series of short books summarising areas of law (8) |
| CANEL | Any of a series of channel-like markings visible on the surface of Mars when viewing through a telescope (5) |
