groundcraft

From ground +‎ -craft.

groundcraft (plural groundcraft)

1. Any vehicle that can only operate on solid ground.
   • 2020 January 1, Adam Hadhazy, “Achieving autonomy”, in Aerospace America‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 April 2025:

     Although operational environments profoundly differ, both kinds of autonomous vehicles, groundcraft and aircraft, will still rely on conceptually the same sorts of sensors — cameras, radar and lidar — to perceive surroundings in real time.

   • 2020 June 20, “Astronaut Doug Hurley to give Monday’s Talladega command from space”, in NASCAR.com‎^[2], archived from the original on 11 July 2020:

     Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, was the Grand Marshal of the 1994 summer Talladega 500. Aldrin added a personal touch in commanding the drivers to start their engines, stating, “Gentlemen, energize your groundcraft.”

   • 2023, Janne Heilala, Ebo Kwegyir-Afful, Jussi Kantola, “Training and Competency Development on Virtual Safety Training”, in Human Factors in Virtual Environments and Game Design‎^[3], volume 96, →DOI, archived from the original on 23 July 2024, page 138:

     For example, autonomous aircraft, spacecraft (e.g., Mourtzis et al. 2022), groundcraft or seacraft training involves ground and flight/sea crews, operators for metal additive manufacturing (e.g., Pusateri et al. 2022) on for operations continuity service level contracts (SLAs).