near-circular orbit
111Astronomy on Mars — Mosaic of two different Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) exposures of Earth, the Moon, and Jupiter from 2003 …
112Parabolic trajectory — In astrodynamics or celestial mechanics a parabolic trajectory is a Kepler orbit with the eccentricity equal to 1. When moving away from the source it is called an escape orbit, otherwise a capture orbit.Under standard assumptions a body… …
113STS-62 — Infobox Space mission mission name = STS 62 insignia = Sts 62 patch.png shuttle = Columbia launch pad = 39 B launch = March 4, 1994, 8:53:01 a.m. EST landing = March 18, 1994, 8:10:42 a.m. EST, KSC Runway 33 duration = 13 days, 23 hours, 16… …
114Pleistocene Epoch — Earlier and longer of the two epochs that constitute the Quaternary Period. The Pleistocene began с 1.8 million years ago and ended с 10,000 years ago. It was preceded by the Pliocene Epoch of the Tertiary Period and followed by the Holocene… …
115Alhazen — For the Moon crater, see Alhazen (crater). For the asteroid, see 59239 Alhazen. Alhazen Alhazen (Ibn al Haytham) …
116Detached object — Trans Neptunian objects beyond 100AU: SDO (in grey) and detached objects (in white) Detached objects are a dynamical class of bodies in the outer Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune. These objects have orbits whose points of closest approach …
117Geosynchronous satellite — A geosynchronous satellite is a satellite whose orbital track on the Earth repeats regularly over points on the Earth over time. If such a satellite s orbit lies over the equator and the orbit is circular, it is called a geostationary satellite.… …
118OSO 7 — The OSO 7 satellite, like the other Orbiting Solar Observatory missions, was primarily a solar observatory designed to point a battery of UV and X ray telescopes at the Sun from a platform mounted on a cylindrical wheel …
119Apollo 8 — Infobox Space mission mission name = Apollo 8 insignia = Apollo 8 patch.png command module = CM 103 mass 28,817 kg service module = SM 103 lunar module = Lunar Test Article (LTA B) mass 9,026 kg booster = Saturn V SA 503 crew size = 3 launch pad …
120International Space Station — ISS redirects here. For other uses, see ISS (disambiguation). International Space Station …
