Space flight

Space flight

Of or relating to the act of voyaging outside the Earth's atmosphere and into outer space, and the science involved in achieving it.

Industry: Aerospace

Add a new term

Contributors in Space flight

Become a Contributors

Space flight

Walking orbit

Aerospace; Space flight

A spacecraft orbit that precesses, wherein the location of periapsis changes with respect to the planet's surface in a useful way. See sun-synchronous.

Watt

Aerospace; Space flight

A measure of electrical power equal to potential in volts times current in amps.

Velocity

Aerospace; Space flight

A vector quantity whose magnitude is a body's speed and whose direction is the body's direction of motion.

Time-division multiplexing (TDM)

Aerospace; Space flight

A type of digital or (rarely) analogue multiplexing in which two or more signals or bit streams are transferred apparently simultaneously as sub-channels in one communication channel, but are ...

Superior conjunction

Aerospace; Space flight

Alignment between Earth and a planet on the far side of the sun.

Superior planet

Aerospace; Space flight

Planet which orbits farther from the sun than Earth's orbit.

Sun synchronous orbit

Aerospace; Space flight

A spacecraft orbit that precesses, wherein the location of periapsis changes with respect to the planet's surface so as to keep the periapsis location near the same local time on the planet each ...