Definition of "space laboratory" []

• A manned artificial satellite in a fixed orbit designed for scientific research (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "It was built in space over a span of ten years and designed as a space laboratory so that scientists could carry out experiments in a nearly gravity-free environment."
• "Such large crews would be necessary to perform the planned satellite deployments and retrievals, spacewalks, and space laboratory research of the shuttle era."