Escape orbit
Escape orbit An escape orbit (also known as C3 = 0 orbit) is the high-energy parabolic orbit ...
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Orbit of escape   (translated from Spanish)
Orbit of escape One escape orbit (also call orbit C3 = 0) is one of parabolic ...
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Escape velocity
Escape velocity For other senses of this term, see escape velocity (disambiguation). In physics, for a given ... gravitational field and a given position, the escape velocity is the minimum speed an object ... to falling back or staying in an orbit within a bounded distance from the source ... gravitational field. One somewhat counterintuitive feature of escape velocity is that it is independent ...
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Planetary orbit
Planetary orbit Two bodies with a slight difference in ... around a common barycenter. In physics, an orbit is the path that an object makes ... system, planets, asteroids, comets and space debris orbit the central star in elliptical orbits. Any comet in a parabolic or hyperbolic orbit about the central star is not gravitationally ... our solar system with a distinctly hyperbolic orbit. Bodies which are gravitationally bound to ...
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Capture orbit
Capture orbit A capture orbit is the high-energy parabolic orbit that allows the capture other than crashing ... s surface (or atmospheric re-entry). Capture orbit is identical to escape orbit - just the direction is reverse. ...
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Orbit insertion
Orbit insertion Orbit insertion is a maneuver performed by an ... allow the spacecraft to be captured into orbit around a planet. The spacecraft approaches the ... planet at a speed greater than the escape velocity of the planet. The spacecraft must ... its speed to below the planet's escape velocity. This is usually accomplished through ...
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Circular orbit
Circular orbit Two bodies with a slight difference in ... orbits. For other meanings of the term "orbit", see orbit (disambiguation) In astrodynamics or celestial mechanics a circular orbit is an elliptic orbit with the eccentricity equal to 0. ...
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Earth orbit
Earth orbit Earth orbit is an orbit around the planet Earth. The Moon, Earth ... s only natural satellite, is in Earth orbit. Artificial satellites are launched into Earth orbit, and spacecraft bound for other locations ...
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Escape velocity   (translated from French)
Escape velocity escape velocity of one planète is vitess which ... last. The term corresponding in English is escape velocity. Escape velocity of a body leaving surface of ... built by the man to reach the escape velocity terrestrial at the time of ...
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Osculating orbit
Osculating orbit In Astronomy, and in particular in Astrodynamics, the osculating orbit of an object in space is the gravitational Keplerian orbit about a central body which best approximates ... a given instant in time. An osculating orbit and the object's position upon it ... the six standard Keplerian orbital elements. An orbit is usually said to be osculating ...
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