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  • Thumbnail for Tidal locking
    between a pair of co-orbiting astronomical bodies occurs when one of the objects reaches a state where there is no longer any net change in its rotation...
    47 KB (5,100 words) - 20:08, 10 June 2024
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    A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less...
    19 KB (2,183 words) - 00:17, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geostationary orbit
    A geostationary orbit, also referred to as a geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO), is a circular geosynchronous orbit 35,786 km (22,236 mi) in altitude...
    49 KB (4,861 words) - 05:05, 11 June 2024
  • The orbital period (also revolution period) is the amount of time a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object. In astronomy...
    17 KB (2,059 words) - 18:41, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orbit Culture
    Orbit Culture is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Eksjö, formed in 2013. The band includes vocalist/guitarist Niklas Karlsson, guitarist Richard...
    20 KB (1,901 words) - 11:33, 11 June 2024
  • In quantum physics, the spin–orbit interaction (also called spin–orbit effect or spin–orbit coupling) is a relativistic interaction of a particle's spin...
    28 KB (4,299 words) - 02:45, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Low Orbit Ion Cannon
    Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is an open-source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application written in C#. LOIC was initially developed...
    10 KB (792 words) - 11:09, 13 June 2024
  • Virgin Orbit was a company within the Virgin Group that provided launch services for small satellites. The company was formed in 2017 as a spin-off of...
    26 KB (2,306 words) - 07:55, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orbital decay
    Orbital decay is a gradual decrease of the distance between two orbiting bodies at their closest approach (the periapsis) over many orbital periods. These...
    14 KB (1,984 words) - 05:49, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kepler orbit
    In celestial mechanics, a Kepler orbit (or Keplerian orbit, named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler) is the motion of one body relative to another...
    42 KB (5,982 words) - 18:04, 20 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Orbital ring
    or space launch. Because the cable is spinning faster than orbital velocity, there is a net outward force that is countered by internal tension within...
    18 KB (2,531 words) - 23:58, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Greta Christina
    13, 2016). "Femme, Adjective or Noun? - Greta Christina's Blog". The-orbit.net. Retrieved September 15, 2016. "Femme, Adjective or Noun?". Femmefeminism...
    22 KB (1,868 words) - 14:36, 2 April 2024
  • two separate categories according to their orbits: regular moons, which have prograde orbits (they orbit in the direction of their planets' rotation)...
    165 KB (4,624 words) - 18:52, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for High Orbit Ion Cannon
    High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC) is an open-source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application designed to attack as many as 256 URLs...
    16 KB (1,747 words) - 22:44, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lagrange point
    as orbit corrections, and hence fuel requirements, needed to maintain the desired orbit are kept at a minimum. For any combination of two orbital bodies...
    50 KB (5,703 words) - 23:15, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sub-orbital spaceflight
    velocity to go into low Earth orbit, and then de-orbit before completing their first full orbit, are not considered sub-orbital. Examples of this include...
    31 KB (3,657 words) - 12:00, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for International Space Station
    Station (ISS) is a large space station assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United...
    365 KB (32,345 words) - 02:23, 16 June 2024
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    604–614 km shells. However, the FCC noted that this is not a net increase in approved on-orbit satellites for SpaceX since SpaceX is no longer planning to...
    263 KB (22,333 words) - 05:14, 15 June 2024
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    Spacecraft (redirect from In orbit)
    except single-stage-to-orbit vehicles cannot get into space on their own, and require a launch vehicle (carrier rocket). On a sub-orbital spaceflight, a space...
    47 KB (5,394 words) - 13:24, 8 June 2024
  • gravitational two-body problem, the specific orbital energy ε {\displaystyle \varepsilon } (or vis-viva energy) of two orbiting bodies is the constant sum of their...
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