寝しん台だい船せん

noun

sleeper ship

Science fiction term for a spacecraft whose crew and/or passengers are in suspended animation during a long voyage.

• そのSF小しょう説せつでは、寝しん台だい船せんで数すう百ひゃく年ねんかけて別べつの星せい系けいへ向むかう。

  In that sci-fi novel, they travel to another star system over hundreds of years aboard a sleeper ship.