Spacedock

Affiliation:	Starfleet
Type:	Spacedock

A spacedock was a facility capable of docking starships for maintenance. Most spacefaring species had some type of spacedock, and they thus varied widely in design. Within the United Federation of Planets, and its immediate predecessors, a spacedock most often took the form of a free-standing, orbital, single-starship-sized "cage". This form of spacedock was virtually synonymous with the word drydock. Examples included McKinley Station and the unnamed facilities which launched the refit Enterprise (NCC-1701) and the NX-01, as well as the many individual spacedocks that comprised the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards. Generally, these cage designs were for major construction or refits.