interplanetary orbit
1Interplanetary spaceflight — or interplanetary travel is travel between planets within a single planetary system. In practice, spaceflights of this type are confined to travel between the planets of the Solar System. Current achievements in interplanetary travel Remotely… …
2Orbit insertion — is the spaceflight operation of adjusting a spacecraft’s momentum to allow for entry into a stable orbit around a planet, moon, or other celestial body.[1] This maneuver involves either deceleration from a speed in excess of the respective body’s …
3Interplanetary Transport Network — The Interplanetary Transport Network (ITN) [Ross, S. D. 2006 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1511/2006.59.994 The Interplanetary Transport Network] . American Scientist 94:230 237.] is a collection of gravitationally determined pathways through the solar… …
4Interplanetary medium — [ heliospheric current sheet results from the influence of the Sun s rotating magnetic field on the plasma in the interplanetary medium. [http://quake.stanford.edu/ wso/gifs/HCS.html] ] The interplanetary medium is the material which fills the… …
5Orbit — This article is about orbits in celestial mechanics, due to gravity. For other uses, see Orbit (disambiguation). A satellite orbiting the Earth has a tangential velocity and an inward acceleration …
6InterPlanetary Network — The InterPlanetary Network (IPN) is a group of spacecraft equipped with gamma ray burst (GRB) detectors. By timing the arrival of a burst at several spacecraft, its precise location can be found. The farther apart the detectors, or the greater… …
7interplanetary medium — ▪ astronomy thinly scattered matter that exists between the planets and other bodies of the solar system, as well as the forces (e.g., magnetic and electric) that pervade this region of space. The material components of the interplanetary… …
8interplanetary dust particle — ▪ astronomy also called micrometeoroid, micrometeorite , or cosmic dust particle a small grain, generally less than a few hundred micrometres in size and composed of silicate minerals and glassy nodules but sometimes including sulfides,… …
9Interplanetary Internet — [ Earth to the Moon, limits the speed at which Interplanetary Internet messages would be able to travel. Due to the vast distances involved, much longer delays are incurred than in the Earth bound Internet.] The Interplanetary Internet, as… …
10Interplanetary dust cloud — The interplanetary dust cloud is cosmic dust (small particles floating in space) which pervade the space between planets in the Solar System and in other planetary systems. It has been studied for many years in order to understand its nature,… …
