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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.
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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 ...
