Phrases with «parking orbit»

A "parking orbit" is a temporary route followed by spacecraft in outer space. It's like a waiting area before they go to their final destination, such as a planet or a satellite. It allows the spacecraft to stay in orbit until it's ready to move to its intended location. Full definition

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Sentences with «parking orbit»

So if we do a high elliptic parking orbit for the ship, and re-tank in high - elliptic orbit, we can go all the way to the moon, and back, with no local propellant production on the moon. (businessinsider.com)
Somehow they stayed on parking orbits roughly 100 times closer to their stars than Jupiter is to our sun. (discovermagazine.com)
In the early stages, ascended climbers can be put into parking orbits. (discovermagazine.com)
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Phrases with «parking orbit»

Sentences with «parking orbit»

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