orbital rendezvous mission
1Orbital Express — Orbital Express: ASTRO and NEXTSat Orbital Express was a space mission managed by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and a team led by engineers at NASA s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). The Orbital Express… …
2Orbital Express — Orbital Express: ASTRO (links) und NEXTSat (rechts) Orbital Express: ASTRO …
3Orbital inclination change — is an orbital maneuver aimed at changing the inclination of an orbiting body s orbit. This maneuver is also known as an orbital plane change as the plane of the orbit is tipped. This maneuver requires a change in the orbital velocity vector… …
4Mission Apollo — Programme Apollo Pour les articles homonymes, voir Apollo. Premiers pas sur la Lune de Buzz Aldrin le 20 juillet 1969 lors de la mission Apollo 11 avec …
5Orbital maneuver — In spaceflight, an orbital maneuver is the use of propulsion systems to change the orbit of a spacecraft. For spacecraft far from Earth for example those in orbits around the Sun an orbital maneuver is called a deep space maneuver (DSM).[not… …
6Orbital Space Plane Program — Conceptual drawings of the Orbital Space Plane The Orbital Space Plane (OSP) program was a NASA concept[when?] designed to support the International Space Station requirements for crew r …
7Orbital Space Plane — The Orbital Space Plane (OSP) program was designed to support the International Space Station requirements for crew rescue, crew transport and contingency cargo such as supplies, food and other needed equipment. With the initiation of Project… …
8Orbital Sciences Corporation — For the Australian company, see Orbital Corporation Limited. Orbital Sciences Corporation Type Public (NYSE: ORB) Industry Aerosp …
9Orbital mechanics — A satellite orbiting the earth has a tangential velocity and an inward acceleration. Orbital mechanics or astrodynamics is the application of ballistics and celestial mechanics to the practical problems concerning the motion of rockets and other… …
10Orbital station-keeping — In astrodynamics orbital station keeping is a term used to describe the orbital maneuvers made by thruster burns that are needed to keep a spacecraft in a particular assigned orbit. For many Earth satellites the effects of the non Keplerian… …
