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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 last week’s successful lunar orbital insertion manoeuvre, this image of the Moon was captured by our lander-mounted camera during HAKUTO-R Mission 1”, the company wrote on Twitter.
Source: https://www.canindia.com/private-japanese-lander-sends-1st-image-from-lunar-orbit/
An orbital ear piercing is made up of two or more holes connected by a ring.
Source: https://www.popsugar.com/beauty/types-of-piercings-48760208
An orbital flight is a key step before the rocket can go to outer space.
Source: https://observer.com/2023/04/spacex-starship-orbital-launch-date/
Another sets a 1-in-1,000 threshold for the risk of a collision between space objects at least 10 centimeters across and the upper stage over the planned orbital lifetime of the upper stage.
Source: https://spacenews.com/faa-proposes-rule-to-limit-lifetime-of-upper-stages-in-orbit/
A smaller initiative included in the budget document is $39 million to study orbital debris.
Source: https://spacenews.com/white-house-proposes-27-2-billion-for-nasa-in-2024/
Britain’s first orbital launch ended in a disappointing failure after Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket suffered an anomaly, destroying the seven payloads on board.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/virgin-orbit-launchone-crashes-first-uk-orbital-launch-1849969272
China led the world with 34 orbital launch attempts in 2019 — including two failures — followed by 22 flights from Russian-operated launch pads and 21 satellite delivery missions originating from U.S. spaceports, all of which were successful.
Edwards eventually confirmed he suffered a medial orbital fracture to his left eye which was caused by Rodriguez.
Source: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/boxing/sunny-edwards-boxing-curtis-woodhouse-31692463
He returned to Earth from that orbital foray on the Discovery and later boarded the Atlantis for another mission in 2010.
Source: https://www.presstelegram.com/2023/07/14/nasa-astronaut-garrett-reisman-joins-vast-spaces-ranks/
Interstellar developed and launched suborbital rockets before beginning work on an orbital rocket.
Source: https://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/138281.php
In this solid setting, a version of orbital balloons still exists, but it's more common to visualize them not in space—where there are many huge and unwieldy orbitals—but as a function of the speed and direction of the traveling electrons.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-01-electrons-unconventional-metal.html
It comes after a record 2022, when there were 186 orbital launch attempts, 40 more than 2021.
Source: https://spacenews.com/spacex-begins-2023-with-transporter-6-launch/
MADRID : Spanish rocket company PLD Space plans a first orbital launch from French Guiana in the first quarter of 2026, after it carried out the first fully private European rocket launch earlier this month, it said on Friday.
On the same day that SpaceX failed to launch the first orbital test flight of its Starship vehicle, the company has managed to launch something similar but altogether smaller: the Starship Torch.
Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/space/spacex-launches-a-different-kind-of-starship/
Other key moments will include stage separation, ignition of the second stage engine, and orbital insertion.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/relativity-space-terran-1-launch-cape-canaveral-1850211968
Planets in the solar system also have orbital planes that vary in tilt by a few degrees from each other, the researchers said.
Skyroot plans to carry out its first orbital flight by the year-end, with the updated Vikram II rocket scheduled to become launch-ready by next year, according to the company.
SpaceX began launching satellites into the Gen2 network in December, beginning the population of new orbital planes with older-design satellites until the larger Starlink spacecraft design is ready to take over entirely.
Source: https://spaceflightnow.com/2023/05/04/falcon-9-starlink-5-6-coverage/
SpaceX plans to fire up all 33 engines powering its massive Starship launch system ahead of its first orbital launch, a key milestone in the company's efforts to reach the moon and Mars.