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Aerocapture is an orbital transfer maneuver in which a spacecraft makes a single pass through a planetary atmosphere to decelerate and achieve orbit insertion.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-11-aerocapture-free-lunch-space-exploration.html
“After its encounter, the asteroid’s orbit will be more elongated, moving it out to about halfway between Earth’s and Mars’ orbits at its farthest point from the sun,” NASA said in a statement.
After the Soviet collapse, Ukraine existed as a poor backwater in Russia’s orbit, causing no trouble for anyone — except itself, due to world-beating corruption — until the USA started a push to include it in NATO.
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/11/james-howard-kunstler/the-four-wars/
Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) and Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) find themselves stranded on the planet Seatos, their T-6 shuttle temporarily out of comission after a skirmish in orbit.
Source: https://screenrant.com/ahsoka-episode-4-recap-star-wars-reveals/
All that rocket power creates quite a spectacle as it heads toward orbit, with those watching the event also treated to the return and upright landing of two of the three boosters shortly after launch.
Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/space/spacex-5th-try-at-launching-falcon-heavy/
An illustration of objects and space debris in Earth orbit.
Source: https://spacenews.com/nasa-study-assess-costs-and-benefits-of-orbital-debris-removal/
Another factor is orbit time.
Source: https://theweek.com/space/1020825/the-science-and-mystery-of-jupiters-many-moons
Another OSK satellite is scheduled to travel to low-Earth orbit in June.
Source: https://spacenews.com/orbital-sidekick-acquires-first-light-imagery/
Apollo 11 astronaut who stayed in orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon opened up.
Artemis V will use NASA’s SLS rocket to send four astronauts to lunar orbit aboard the Orion spacecraft.
Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/space/jeff-bezoss-blue-origin-finally-gets-coveted-moon-contract/
As designed, the Starship rocket is nearly two times more powerful than Nasa's own Space Launch System (SLS), which made its debut uncrewed flight to orbit in November, sending a Nasa cruise vessel called Orion on a 10-day voyage around the moon and back.
As important as housing is, perhaps the nation’s Number One crisis, actually, the tiny scale our local officials were tasked with handling nonetheless sent a lot of locals into orbit, fearing the worst for their treasured homes.
Source: https://www.fcnp.com/2023/09/28/editorial-the-younger-folks-who-led-us/
As per ISRO, the Gaganyaan missions will employ the LVM3 rocket to launch the Orbital Module at a 400 km orbit.
Source: https://www.siasat.com/indian-space-odyssey-a-look-into-isros-upcoming-space-expeditions-2737388/
Astronomers hate the astrological term “supermoon,” but it does help explain the Moon’s orbit and its effects on our planet.
Astronomers have found that when a star approaches an average black hole, it is initially trapped in orbit around the black hole.
Source: https://www.baltimoregaylife.com/medium-sized-black-holes-get-stuck-when-they-eat/
A supermoon occurs when the full moon coincides with the moon’s closest approach to Earth in its orbit.
Source: https://njtoday.news/2023/08/30/new-jerseyans-may-view-2023s-biggest-brightest-supermoon-tonight/
At least 12 satellites are needed to provide full commercial services from an SSA platform designed to track objects as small as five centimeters in LEO and 40 centimeters in geostationary orbit.
Source: https://spacenews.com/northstar-pivots-to-rocket-lab-following-virgin-orbits-collapse/
At least, that’s the message folks in Scott’s orbit are putting out.
Source: https://www.fitsnews.com/2023/09/03/palmetto-political-stock-index-9-3-2023/
At that time, NASA plans to use several commercial “visiting vehicles” to help push the ISS out of orbit and strategically crash it into an uninhabited part of the Pacific Ocean known as Point Nemo.
A weather balloon will fly at an altitude above what an aircraft will fly, below any stable orbit, and move so slowly that it is not likely to raise any alarms.