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edition, labeled "Orbiter 2024", was released on 31 December 2024. The developer, Martin Schweiger, announced to the community that Orbiter is being published...

trajectory on July 19, 1963. The first reusable orbital spaceplane was the Space Shuttle orbiter. The first orbiter to fly in space, the Space Shuttle Columbia...

of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights (STS-5) beginning in 1982. Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles...

Look up orbiter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An orbiter is a type of spacecraft. Orbiter may also refer to: Space Shuttle orbiter, the main component...

The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998, to study the Martian...

The Space Shuttle orbiter was the spaceplane component of the Space Shuttle, a partially reusable orbital spacecraft system that was part of the discontinued...

The Solar Orbiter (SolO) is a Sun-observing probe developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with a NASA contribution. Solar Orbiter, designed to obtain...

Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: Maṅgala 'Mars', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle'), is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft designed to search for the existence of water on Mars and provide support for missions to Mars,...

Look up orbital in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orbital may refer to: Atomic orbital Molecular orbital Hybrid orbital Orbit Earth orbit Orbit (anatomy)...

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by LRO...

mechanics, an orbit is the curved trajectory of an object under the influence of an attracting force. Alternatively, it is known as an orbital revolution...

Columbia was the first space-rated orbiter constructed, following the atmospheric test vehicle Enterprise. The orbiter contained the crew compartment, where...

model of the Orbiter 3 constructed with a spare Orbiter 2 envelope was exhibited at Gasometer Oberhausen from 2004 to 2006. The Breitling Orbiter 3 was a Cameron...

"Astro Orbiter". WDWHistory.com. Retrieved August 12, 2006. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Astro Orbiter. Disneyland - Astro Orbitor Magic Kingdom...

Orbit is the first studio album by English musician William Orbit. While all of his later solo albums are predominantly instrumental, this album consists...

moving target. If a target is not detected, the Orbiter 1K can return to base and land for reuse. The Orbiter 1K can fly for 2–3 hours carrying an electro-optical/infrared...

orbiter, with only a mockup crew module installed and thermal insulation placed on its forward fuselage. NASA planned to refit the prototype orbiter Enterprise...

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO or ExoMars Orbiter) is a collaborative project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Roscosmos agency...

The Uranus Orbiter and Probe is an orbiter mission concept to study Uranus and its moons. The orbiter would also deploy an atmospheric probe to characterize...

a crewed orbiter. The construction of a new Space Shuttle orbiter, Endeavour, was approved in 1987 to replace Challenger, and the new orbiter first flew...

thrust to enter orbit around Venus. The Pioneer Venus Orbiter carried 17 experiments with a total mass of 45 kilograms (99 lb): The Orbiter Cloud Photopolarimeter...

December 1956 – 23 July 2026), nicknamed and known professionally as William Orbit, was an English musician and record producer. With a career spanning four...

inactive. There are six orbiters surveying the planet: Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Trace Gas Orbiter, the Hope Mars Mission...

would have consisted of the NASA-led Jupiter Europa Orbiter and the ESA-led Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter. However, the ESA formally ended the partnership in...

in Malaysia. The Orbiter is made by Tivoli Manufacturing, a British company, and by their U.S. representatives, Amtech. The Orbiter has a number of articulated...

together on the Venus Orbiter Mission. The Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM), which is intended to insert a spacecraft in the orbit of planet Venus for a better...

Orbital are an English electronic music duo from Dunton Green, Kent, England, consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll. The band's name is taken...

DoD: RAM-R) was the first flight orbiter to be produced as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran programme. The Buran orbiters were similar in design to the U...

Network (MTN), formerly known as the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO), is a planned Mars orbiter mission intended to provide better communication for Mars...

The Next Mars Orbiter (NeMO, earlier known as the Mars 2022 orbiter) is a proposed NASA Mars communications satellite with high-resolution imaging payload...

In Orbit may refer to: In Orbit (September album) In Orbit (Clark Terry album) In Orbit, an album by The Stomachmouths In Orbit, an album by Sun Araw In...

EDO-pallet used in these orbiter configurations was destroyed in the 2003 Columbia disaster. The Extended Duration Orbiter Cryogenic kit (EDO-pallet...

Extended Duration Orbiter pallet. The orbiter used the pallet in thirteen of the pallet's fourteen flights, which aided lengthy stays in orbit for scientific...

around the future Innisfil GO Station Orbit (bus system), Huntsville, Alabama Orbital (disambiguation) Orbiter (disambiguation) Orbite Technologies Orbitz...

The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA's Lunar Orbiter program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was...

2004 (ISBN 1840237244). ORBITER, reviewed at Publishers Weekly; published 15 September 2003; retrieved 14 March 2017 Orbiter, by Warren Ellis and Colleen...

Lunar Orbiter 4 was a robotic U.S. spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, designed to orbit the Moon, after the three previous orbiters had completed...

Soviet shuttle designs. Although the Buran orbiter was similar in appearance to NASA's Space Shuttle orbiter, and could similarly operate as a re-entry...

on the far side of the Moon, including Ranger 4, Lunar Orbiter 1, Lunar Orbiter 2, Lunar Orbiter 3, Chang'e 4 lander and Yutu-2 rover. Because of increasing...

lander missions. Europa Orbiter received pre-project funding in 1998, and resulted from NASA's Fire and Ice project. Europa Orbiter was a design for a mission...

Earth. The 8.2t stack consisting of lander, ascender, orbiter and returner was launched to lunar orbit by a Long March 5 rocket on 24 November. The lander-ascender...

paired Saturn Orbiter and Titan Probe as a possible joint mission. In 1983, NASA's Solar System Exploration Committee recommended the same Orbiter and Probe...

mission comprises two orbiters: the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), built and operated by ESA, and Mio (Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter, MMO), built and operated...

Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter (JGO) was a part of the international Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM). It was a proposed orbiter by the ESA slated for lift-off...

Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) is a class of hangars where U.S. Space Shuttle orbiters underwent maintenance between flights. They are located west...

possible U.S. orbiter or lander. Mars Environmental Survey – set of 16 landers planned for 1999–2009 Mars-98 – Russian mission including an orbiter, lander...

A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less...

Space Shuttle Endeavour (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational...

United States spacecraft to orbit the Moon was Lunar Orbiter 1 on August 14, 1966. The first orbit was an elliptical orbit, with an apolune of 1,008 nautical...

The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed Moon-orbiting missions launched by the United States in 1966 and 1967. Intended to help select...

System Mission – Laplace (EJSM-Laplace), the Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO) was a proposed orbiter probe slated for lift-off in 2020 and planned for detailed...

2019-06-02. Retrieved 2022-01-04. ISRO successfully sends Mars orbiter into sun-centric orbit. Orbiter successfully placed in Mars Transfer Trajectory. Portals:...

In quantum mechanics, an atomic orbital is a function describing the location and wave-like behavior of an electron in an atom. This function describes...

investigations. Each orbiter, based on the earlier Mariner 9 spacecraft, was an octagon approximately 2.5 m (8.2 ft) across. The fully fueled orbiter-lander pair...

ride's name was changed to what it is known as today, Orbiter. After 25 years in operation, Orbiter was closed during the 2006 operating season. The ride...

The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), officially Danuri, is South Korea's first lunar mission. The orbiter, its science payload and ground control...

whether the best path would be to conduct an orbiter/lander/rover mission or to opt for only an orbiter with more sophisticated instruments than those...

and a central subject of astronomical research since antiquity. The Sun orbits the Galactic Center at a distance of 24,000 to 28,000 light-years. Its mean...

Odyssey is an orbiter mission concept to study Neptune and its moons, particularly Triton. The orbiter would enter into a retrograde orbit of Neptune to...

aircraft were labeled with humorous instructions to "attach orbiter here" or "place orbiter here", clarified by the precautionary note "black side down"...

returning data to Earth: a relay link up to the orbiter and back, and by using a direct link to Earth. The orbiter could transmit to Earth (S-band) at 2,000...

Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space...

Mars orbiter. The mission is the first successful Asian interplanetary mission. Ten days after ISRO's launch, NASA launched their seventh Mars orbiter MAVEN...

Earth Geostationary orbit Geosynchronous orbit Low Earth orbit Medium Earth orbit High Earth orbit Earth Orbiter 1, a shuttle simulator This disambiguation...

value of 0 is a circular orbit, values between 0 and 1 form an elliptic orbit, 1 is a parabolic (escape orbit or capture orbit), and greater than 1 is...

Control. A second ship, Orbiter 2, piloted by Captain Bob Britton (John Carson), sent to rescue the first crew finds Orbiter 1 deserted and the spacecraft's...

Lunar Orbiter 5, the last of the "Lunar Orbiter series", was designed to take additional Apollo and Surveyor landing site photography and to take broad...

Hubble Space Telescope) and, until its 2017 retirement, from the Cassini orbiter around Saturn. Saturn has been known since prehistoric times, and in early...

Echo Orbiter is a Philadelphia-based indie rock band founded by brothers Justin Emerle and Colin Emerle, described by Philadelphia Weekly as being "Widely...

50,000 lb (23,000 kg) of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO). When its mission was complete, the orbiter would reenter the Earth's atmosphere and land like...

Orbit Orbit is the ninth studio album by Italian rapper Caparezza. Anticipated by the single "Io sono il viaggio", it was released on 31 October 2025...

Luna 26 (Luna-Resurs-Orbiter or Luna-Resurs O) is a planned lunar polar orbiter, part of the Luna-Glob program, by Roscosmos. In addition to its scientific...

Space Shuttle Enterprise (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) is the first orbiter of the Space Shuttle system. Rolled out on September 17, 1976, it...

itself onto the ROS. Also installed during STS-134 was the 15 m (50 ft) Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS), which had been used to inspect heat shield tiles...

a Soviet air-launched orbiter reusable launch system project that was proposed in 1988, but cancelled in 1991. The MAKS orbiter was supposed to reduce...

currently in the primary phase with Orbiter missions. There has been a single mission so far that deployed an orbiter around the planet which later lost...

aerobraking (Magellan, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Trace Gas Orbiter, Venus Express, ...). The second type of orbit insertion is used for newly launched satellites...

were all NASA Mars orbiters and ISRO's orbiter, the Mars Orbiter Mission. January: Beagle 2 found by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. During a Phobos flyby...

blast crater while orbiting above the lunar surface. Beginning in 2009, NASA's robotic Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, while orbiting 50 kilometers (31 mi)...

of India. September 9, 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-09. "China's Chang'e-5 orbiter is heading back to the moon". SpaceNews. 2021-09-06. Retrieved 2021-09-08...

of which was photographed on March 4, 2022, by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, is of unknown provenance; no space program has taken credit for it, although...

to be known as the "orbiter", was awarded to North American Rockwell (later Rockwell International), with the first complete orbiter rolled out in 1976...

before contact was lost Mars Orbiter Camera view of Mars in enhanced color, centered on Arabia Terra (the bright area) Mars Orbiter Camera picture taken on...

Reconnaissance Orbiter, which reached Mars in March 2006, by monitoring atmospheric conditions during months when the newly arrived orbiter used aerobraking...

Wagner, O.; Brückner, Johannes (1996). "Mercury sun-synchronous polar orbiter with a solar sail". Acta Astronautica. 39 (1): 143–151. Bibcode:1996AcAau...

The orbital period (also revolution period) is the amount of time a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object. In astronomy...

litres (2.2 imp gal; 2.6 US gal). Orbiter XP Base model circa 2005. Orbiter XPE Model with electronic starting. Orbiter XPR Light Model with Radne Raket...

the orbiter on September 3, 1976, at 22:37:50 UT and landed at Utopia Planitia. The normal procedure called for the structure connecting the orbiter and...

Akatsuki (あかつき, 暁; "Dawn"), also known as the Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO) and Planet-C, was a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) space probe tasked...

2019. "Lunar Orbiter 1". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 7 August 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019. "In Depth | Lunar Orbiter 1". Solar System...

the tank to collide with the orbiter. The main engines would cut off, and the tank would be jettisoned, as the orbiter used its RCS to increase separation...

"Orbiter". At the July 15 show in Chicago, "Staying Still" and "Willing and Able" were performed, and "Growing Sideways" was performed after "Orbiter"...

a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself. The...

inside Orbiter 9. Helena tells Hugo she has one condition if she and Alex are to return to Orbiter 9. Some years later, a girl exits Orbiter 9 in the...

The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 robotic spacecraft mission, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar...

protect from the heat and cold of space while in orbit. The TPS covered essentially the entire orbiter surface, and consisted of seven different materials...

its SN3 mission by launching its Orbiter aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on their Transporter-8 mission. The Orbiter was attached to Starfish Space's...

An in-orbit fragmentation (also known as an on-orbit fragmentation) is an event in which an orbiting human-made object releases one or more fragments (space...

Orbiter is a 1986 video game published by Spectrum HoloByte. Orbiter is a game in which the astronauts are launched into space, where they have the ability...

launch window in 2013, unused Chandrayaan-2 orbiter hardware was repurposed to be used for the Mars Orbiter Mission. Chandrayaan-2 launch had been scheduled...

Indian scientist and Padma Shri awardee, known for his role in the Mars Orbiter Mission of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He finished his schooling...

would consist of an orbiter that would conduct mineralogical and chemical mapping of the surface. During the assembly of the orbiter only mission, then...

The Lunar Orbiter 3 was a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1967 as part of the Lunar Orbiter Program. It was designed primarily to photograph areas of the...

vehicle capable of orbital spaceflight Space Shuttle, a NASA vehicle designated "Orbiter Vehicle" Orbiter Vehicle Designation ISRO Orbital Vehicle (Gaganyaan)...

Transportation System-1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program. The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on April 12, 1981, and...

spacecraft include: Venera program — USSR Venus orbiter and lander (1961–1984) Pioneer Venus project — US Venus orbiter and entry probes (1978) Vega program —...

Chinese space program, after the failed Yinghuo-1 orbiter (2011) and the successful Tianwen-1 orbiter, lander, and rover (2020–present). It is the third...

Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of 149.60 million km (92.96 million mi), or 8.317 light-minutes, in a counterclockwise direction as viewed...

spacecraft which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. Cancelled Europa missions Europa Orbiter and Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter called for orbiting the moon. However...

'cleanest' post-flight orbiter since Return to Flight". On August 31, 2007, NASA reported that the damaged tiles had been removed in the Orbiter Processing Facility...

Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle designation: OV‑104) is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space...

However, for logistical reasons the Uranus Orbiter and Probe mission was selected as the ice giant orbiter mission recommendation, with top priority ahead...

becoming space debris. Orbiter: after the samples were transported from the Ascender to the Orbiter, the Orbiter left lunar orbit and spent ~4.5 days flying...

"Fusion-Enabled Pluto Orbiter and Lander". NASA. Archived from the original on April 21, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2018. Fusion-Enabled Pluto Orbiter and Lander –...

control the orbiter, rather any tests or operations on the orbiter are done through the national space agency i.e SUPARCO." While Orbiting specific missions...

Surveyor orbiter and Mars Pathfinder, the latter deploying the first Mars rover, Sojourner. During the early 2000s, the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter reached...

collision has become more severe. An orbiter is a spacecraft that is designed to perform an orbital insertion, entering orbit around an astronomical body from...

Venusian elliptic orbit on 7 December 2015 by firing its attitude control thrusters for 20 minutes, making it Japan's first planetary orbiter beyond Earth...

their delivery to Earth. Orbiter: after the samples were transported from the Ascender to the Orbiter, the Orbiter left lunar orbit and spent ~4.5 days flying...

orbiting it, and would have worked together with the Jovian Relay Spacecraft (JRS) and the Jovian Minisat Explorer (JME). The Jovian Europa Orbiter was...

Project Orbiter was a proposed United States spacecraft, an early competitor to Project Vanguard. It was jointly run by the United States Army and United...

High-resolution images of Cydonia, Freie Universität Berlin – Mars Express orbiter data (orbit 3253) Discussion of MOC and "Face on Mars", Malin Space Science Systems...

The orbit of the Moon is, while stable and known, highly complex, and as such still studied by lunar theory. Most models describe the Moon's orbit geocentrically...

consisted of an orbiter and a lander. It was launched on June 8, 1975, at 02:38:00 UTC and had a mass of 4,936 kilograms (10,882 lb). The orbiter was the first...

The SeaOrbiter, also known as Sea Orbiter (two words), is a proposed oceangoing research vessel based on the ideas of French architect and oceanographer...

orbiter to perform various orbital maneuvers according to requirements of each mission profile: orbital injection after main engine cutoff, orbital corrections...

which took about 10 hours. The Orbiter Lifting Fixture was dismantled in 2008. On the rare occasions when an orbiter needed to be loaded or unloaded...

aerodynamic design of the X-37 was derived from the larger Space Shuttle orbiter, hence the X-37 has a similar lift-to-drag ratio, and a lower cross range...

Mars Orbiter Mission, also called Mangalyaan. In 2021, she donated the sari which she wore on November 30, 2013, when the spacecraft left Earth orbit on...

Martian orbit may refer to: the orbit of Mars around the Sun an areocentric orbit, orbit of an object around Mars an areostationary orbit an areosynchronous...

System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the masses that orbit it, most prominently its eight planets, of which Earth is one. The Solar...

vertebrate anatomy, the orbit is the cavity or socket/hole of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated. "Orbit" can refer to the bony...

The Dobbertin Surface Orbiter is an amphibious vehicle designed and built by Rick Dobbertin in the early 1990s. The DSO started out from a 1959 Heil milk...

A geostationary orbit, also referred to as a GEO or GSO, is a circular geosynchronous orbit 35,786 km (22,236 mi) in altitude above Earth's equator, 42...

to launch larger 5 tonne spacecraft, consisting of an orbiter and a lander to Mars. The orbiter bus design was likely somewhat rushed into service and...

mission such as Chandrayaan-4, Lunar Polar Exploration Mission, Venus Orbiter Mission and Mars Lander Mission. There are also various Indian satellite...

the Galileo spacecraft consisted of an orbiter and an atmospheric entry probe. It was delivered into Earth orbit on October 18, 1989, by Space Shuttle...

having transmitted only a gray image with no details. The Mars 2 orbiter and Mars 3 orbiter continued to circle Mars and transmit images back to Earth for...

sources speculated that the spacecraft contained a lander. The orbiter entered Venus orbit on October 23, 1975. Its mission was to serve as a communications...

they have affairs with men besides their partner while ovulating. A beta orbiter is a beta male who invests time and effort into mingling with women in...

the Tianwen-1 orbiter and the lander's heat shield while the other one had to image the orbiter and Northern Mars Ice Cap from Mars orbit. Tianwen-1 Remote...

Orbital is a 2023 novel by English novelist Samantha Harvey that incorporates elements of science fiction, literary fiction, and philosophical fiction...

Oceanus is a NASA/JPL orbiter mission concept proposed in 2017 for the New Frontiers mission #4, but it was not selected for development. If selected...

Breizh Reconnaissance Orbiter (BRO) is a low Earth orbit satellite constellation developed by the French company Unseenlabs, headquartered in Rennes, Brittany...

Orbital inclination measures the tilt of an object's orbit around a celestial body. It is expressed as the angle between a reference plane and the orbital...

export Orbiter 1K model UAV to Azerbaijan. The move came after report that Aeronautics representatives conducted a live-fire test of its Orbiter 1K model...

Reflect Orbital, Inc is an American privately held space technology company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. Founded in 2021, the company designs...

Previous images were taken robotically and in black-and-white by the Lunar Orbiter program robotic probes, which in 1966 took the first ever image of Earth...

intended to put the payload into orbit, and Energia-Buran, in which the Buran orbiter was the payload and the source of the orbit insertion impulse. The launch...

in orbit: 2001 Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, the Hope orbiter, and the Tianwen-1 orbiter. Another...

separate missions: the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe and Pioneer Venus Orbiter, orbiting Venus between 1978 and 1992. In 1982 the first monochrome colour filters...

made, and the risks of launching another orbiter without resolving the failure which caused the previous orbiter to become disabled would have to have been...

photography of the lunar surface by the five uncrewed probes of the Lunar Orbiter program and information about surface conditions provided by the Surveyor...

A flyby probe passes near a celestial body without entering orbit. An orbiter enters orbit around a target body for long-term observation. A lander reaches...

to provide orbital communication relay for Mars surface-based missions. Atmospheric orbiters at Mars ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Mars Orbiter Mission MAVEN...

and electrical power between the tank and the orbiter. Electrical signals and controls between the orbiter and the two solid rocket boosters were also routed...

started in 2006. By 2007, the orbiter was proposed for a lift-off in 2020 together with ESA's Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter (JGO) from which it would undock...

for several decades. In April 2022, CNSA's Chang'e 5 orbiter became the first to enter the orbit, followed by NASA's Orion Spacecraft during the Artemis...

In chemistry, orbital hybridisation (or hybridization) is the concept of mixing atomic orbitals to form new hybrid orbitals (with different energies,...

during the 2017 NASA/JPL Planetary Science Summer School. OCEANUS is an orbiter, which would enable a detailed study of the structure of the planet's magnetosphere...

Orbit Culture is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Eksjö, formed in 2013. The band includes vocalist and rhythm guitarist Niklas Karlsson, lead...

The Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) was one of five instruments on the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft, which operated in Mars orbit from September...

Kepler orbit. There are many different ways to mathematically describe the same orbit, but certain schemes are commonly used in astronomy and orbital mechanics...

Wikinews has related news: New Mars Orbiter arrives for launch Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Martian orbit April 30, 2005: the MRO spacecraft was...

the port side of the orbiter. Published reports on August 4, 2005, said that wind tunnel testing had demonstrated that the orbiter was safe to re-enter...

low Earth orbit from where scientific and/or technical experiments will be conducted.[citation needed] The ESEO (European Student Earth Orbiter) project...

An electron orbital may refer to: An atomic orbital, describing the behaviour of an electron in an atom A molecular orbital, describing the behaviour...

space mission to Venus that would include an orbiter and a lander to be launched in 2036. The orbiter's prime objective is to perform observations with...

Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Dragon spacecraft, and conducts more orbital launches annually than any other launch provider (including national programs);...

one 3s orbital, three 3p orbitals, and five 3d orbitals, and thus has a capacity of 2×1 + 2×3 + 2×5 = 18. The fourth shell contains one 4s orbital, three...

regular Buran-class orbiter operation. (The flight of Buran was lacking regular thermal control and power systems.) This orbiter was also planned to receive...

shuttle was flipped around so the better-armoured station shielded the orbiter. A NASA 2005 study concluded that debris accounted for approximately half...

Frequency of Earth-sized Inner Planets Hermes Global Orbiter (Mercury Orbiter) Icy Moon Mission (Lunar Orbiter) Interlune-One (Lunar Rovers) Jovian Integrated...

Hewlett-Packard in 2003. The company planned to launch the TrailBlazer lunar orbiter, which was proposed as the first privately-financed science mission to...

Hill sphere, its orbital and co-orbital space extend along Earth's orbital path. This space is co-populated by groups of co-orbital Near-Earth Objects...

preventing them from closing fully. Rolling the orbiter to balance temperatures around the orbiter resolved the issue. In addition, in its payload bay...

produced for this orbiter, along with the left wing of article 0.05 and the fuselage of article 0.11 form a model of the Buran orbiter currently on display...

of an actual orbiter, and allowed these initial tests to be undertaken without using the far more expensive and delicate prototype orbiter, Enterprise...

appear to be a smiley face. The formation was first photographed by Viking Orbiter 1 in 1976. A second "happy face crater", smaller than Galle and located...

"Launcher announces customers for first Orbiter space tug mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved August 22, 2022. "Orbiter SN1 Mission Update". Launcher. February...

The Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS) was a 50-foot (15.24 m) boom carried on board NASA's Space Shuttles. The boom was grappled by the Canadarm and served...

European Mars orbiter Mars Orbiter Mission – Indian orbiter mission to Mars (2013–2022) Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA Mars orbiter launched in 2005...

completed Lunar Orbiter program Lunar Orbiter 1, launched August 1966, completed Lunar Orbiter 2, launched November 1966, completed Lunar Orbiter 3, launched...

weather observation satellite, which was released by the orbiter and boosted into a geostationary orbit. The secondary payload, replacing a delayed NASA communications...

the SRB RGAs to the orbiter RGAs. The SRB RGA rates passed through the orbiter flight aft multiplexers/demultiplexers to the orbiter GPCs. The RGA rates...

least one horseshoe orbiter occupying the Sun–Uranus L3 Lagrangian point—a gravitationally unstable region at 180° in its orbit, 83982 Crantor. Crantor...

'Mount Olympus') is a large shield volcano on Mars. As measured by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), it is 21.287 kilometres (69,840 ft) high, about...

Lunar Orbiter program — US Lunar orbital (1966–1967) Lunokhod program — USSR Lunar Rover probes (1970–1973) Chang'e program - China Lunar orbiters, landers...

with an orbiter and an attached lander. The orbiter is identical to the Venera 9 bus. The type of bus/orbiter is the 4MV. They were launched by a Proton-K...

Orbit College is a South African football club based in the North West province. The club earned promotion to the 2025–26 South African Premiership after...

Low Earth Orbit and Starship will push both to a lunar orbit. With Blue Moon, SLS launches Orion towards the Moon to dock in a lunar orbit. With either...

Near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO)) Arrival: 14 November 2022 Institution: NASA Danuri (Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter) Mission: Lunar Orbiter by the Korea Aerospace...

construction of the orbiter was suspended, and in 1993, the Buran program was completely cancelled. It was incorrectly announced in 2006 that orbiter 2.01 would...

China plans a crewed lunar landing in 2029 or 2030, using the Mengzhou orbiter and Lanyue lander, each launched by a super heavy-lift Long March 10 rocket...

Near Orbit is a 1989 role-playing game supplement published by R. Talsorian Games for Cyberpunk. Near Orbit is a supplement that introduces rules for adventuring...

In mathematics, the orbit method (also known as the Kirillov theory, the method of coadjoint orbits and by a few similar names) establishes a correspondence...

launched separately: an orbiter and a multiprobe. The orbiter was launched on May 20, 1978 on an Atlas-Centaur rocket. The orbiter's mass was 517 kg (1,140 lb)...

launched from Earth on 15 October 1997. Huygens separated from the Cassini orbiter on 25 December 2004, and landed on Titan on 14 January 2005 near the Adiri...

Orbital velocity may refer to the following: The orbital angular velocity The orbital speed of a revolving body in a gravitational field. The velocity...

the peculiar clustering of orbits for a group of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs)—bodies beyond Neptune that orbit the Sun at distances averaging...

damaging the orbiter or lander. The spacecraft, which housed the Trace Gas Orbiter and the Schiaparelli lander, took its nominal orbit towards Mars and...

Propulsion Laboratory advanced possible designs for a solar-powered Uranus orbiter. The most favorable launch window for such a probe would have been in August...

A geocentric orbit, Earth-centered orbit, or Earth orbit involves any object orbiting Earth, such as the Moon or artificial satellites. In 1997, NASA estimated...

Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Moreover, this was the first use of an unscented Kalman Filter to determine the orbit of an anthropogenic space object...

elliptical orbit or eccentric orbit is an orbit with an eccentricity of less than 1;[citation needed] this includes the special case of a circular orbit, with...

missions. NASA's JIMO (Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter), which was cancelled in 2005, and a European Jovian Europa Orbiter mission were also studied, but were superseded...

sketches and constructions. DAVINCI will send both an orbiter and a descent probe to Venus. The orbiter will image Venus in multiple wavelengths from above...

institution. Each orbiter incorporated over 21,000 tiles. About 42 reusable RS-25 engines have been part of the STS program, with three used per orbiter per mission...

have consisted of an orbiter and up to 4 small landers; all elements would be launched together on the same rocket. The orbiter would study the atmosphere...

A Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), also called a heliosynchronous orbit, is a nearly polar orbit around a planet, in which the satellite passes over any given...

the Moon, included an orbiter, a lander and a rover. It was launched on a GSLV Mk III on 22 July 2019, consisting of a lunar orbiter, the Vikram lander,...

least two independent elements, NASA's Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO) and ESA's Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter (JGO), to perform coordinated studies of the Jovian...

attack. As an internal response to the Soviets' engineless Buran orbiter, an unpowered Orbiter was designed at Marshall Space Flight Center. A payload bay...

Network (NEN, formerly GN or Ground Network) provides orbital communications support for near-Earth orbiting customer platforms via various ground stations,...

Building, Orbiter Processing Facility, and Shuttle Landing Facility. Pathfinder is approximately the same size, shape and weight of an actual orbiter. Using...

planets have been orbiters: Galileo orbited Jupiter for eight years, while Cassini orbited Saturn for thirteen years. Juno has been orbiting Jupiter since...

astronomer Galileo Galilei, it consisted of an orbiter and an entry probe. It was delivered into Earth orbit on October 18, 1989, by Space Shuttle Atlantis...

budget cap, decided to study an orbiter, lander, or a combination thereof. Ultimately, the decision to combine the orbiter and lander into one spacecraft...

network and Mars Express orbiter. China began its first interplanetary exploration attempt in 2011 by sending Yinghuo-1, a Mars orbiter, in a joint mission...

protection system Atmospheric reentry "Space Shuttle Orbiter Systems". NASA. 2000. Retrieved 2009-12-06. "Orbiter Thermal Protection System, Thermal Materials"...

the Moonraker consortium, developing thermal management systems for the orbiter. The Moonraker spacecraft will be based on the DAUNTLESS-L platform, derived...

Europa Orbiter – Cancelled NASA orbiter mission to Europa Galilean moons – Four largest moons of Jupiter Juno (spacecraft) – Second NASA orbiter mission...

Science Experiment, Orbiter Camera, Imaging Laser Altimeter, and a LIDAR instrument. For the extended mission objectives, the orbiter would have carried...

mission in 2028". Space.com. "Isro announces launch date of ambitious Venus Orbiter Mission". India Today. 1 October 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2024. Jones...

expected to be launched in the early 2040s. The mission will consist of an orbiter and a lander. Since 2024, Enceladus has been identified as the European...

rays. Luna-Resurs (Luna 27) was initially planned as a joint orbiter-rover mission (the orbiter was to be the Indian Chandrayaan-2) that would have featured...

and again in 2011, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed the landing site from increasingly low orbits. At least one group has indicated an intention...

"Earthrise" in person for the first time in human history. NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 had taken the first picture of an Earthrise from the vicinity of the...

gravitational orbit classified by various characteristics. The following is a list of types of orbits: Galactocentric orbit: An orbit about the center...

through the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Odyssey orbiter. Data transfer speeds between Curiosity and each orbiter may reach 2000 kbit/s and 256 kbit/s...

The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) was a project to digitize the original analog data tapes from the five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft that...

Research Institute (KARI), which develops lunar orbiters and landers. The plan includes the Danuri, a lunar orbiter launched in 2022, and a future lunar lander...

would signal the orbiter when it passed over the landing site. The first task the orbiter would perform after achieving Mars orbit was to receive a signal...

Union. Retrieved 9 September 2021. NASA SP-441: VIKING ORBITER VIEWS OF MARS, Viking Orbiter Imaging Team, 1980, Channels Portal: Solar System v t e...

perpendicular to its orbital plane around the Sun, producing seasons. Earth is orbited by one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which orbits Earth at 384...

mission in NASA's Mars Exploration Program that launched the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander to the planet Mars. The mission was to study...

region based on images provided by the Orbiter High-Resolution Camera (OHRC) onboard Chandrayaan-2's orbiter. ISRO improved the structural rigidity,...

inserted into lunar orbit on 8 November 2008. On 14 November 2008, the Moon Impact Probe separated from the Chandrayaan orbiter at 14:36 UTC and struck...

Retrieved 2021-10-16. "Solar Orbiter". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-07. "ESA Science & Technology - Solar Orbiter". sci.esa.int. Retrieved 2020-02-10...

March 2025. Pakistan sent a lunar orbiter called ICUBE-Q along with Chang'e 6. Luna 26 is a planned lunar polar orbiter. Along with the scientific payload...

in 42 years. Upon reaching orbit, it deploys the Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter, which looks for potential landing sites for the probes. The first probe...

Orbit Group is a housing group providing affordable housing to around 47,000 households in England, mainly in the Midlands, East Anglia and the south...

guidance error that resulted in an anomalous orbit-lowering manoeuvre. South Korea launched the lunar orbiter Danuri on 4 August 2022, and it arrived at...

Long-Term Development Plan, and aims to be the first heliocentric polar orbiter since NASA and ESA's Ulysses in 1990. Aiming to launch in 2029, the SPO's...

the aft port side of the orbiter where ground support crews attach coolant lines from the Orbiter Coolant Transporter. Orbiter Coolant Transporters. This...

itself into Martian orbit on 10 February 2021, thereby becoming China's first Mars orbiter. Subsequently, it performed several orbital maneuvers and began...

In quantum mechanics, the spin–orbit interaction (also called spin–orbit effect or spin–orbit coupling) is a relativistic interaction of a particle's spin...

flight of the Orbiter Experiments (OEX) advanced autopilot. It ran for approximately 65 hours and demonstrated the ability to fly the orbiter on nose jets...

Halo orbit A halo orbit is a periodic, non-planar orbit associated with one of the L1, L2 or L3 Lagrange points in the three-body problem of orbital mechanics...

Venus has an orbit with a semi-major axis of 0.723 au (108,200,000 km; 67,200,000 mi), and an eccentricity of 0.007. The low eccentricity and comparatively...

Operations and Navigation Experiment) is a lunar orbiter that is testing and verifying the calculated orbital stability planned for the now canceled Lunar...

orbitals (also known as Gaussian type orbitals, GTOs or Gaussians) are functions used as atomic orbitals in the linear combination of atomic orbitals...

as orbit corrections, and hence fuel requirements, needed to maintain the desired orbit are kept at a minimum. For any combination of two orbital bodies...

booster which would carry a smaller winged crewed orbiter. The booster vehicle would lift the orbiter to a certain altitude and speed, then separate. The...

March 2014, a Discovery class mission was proposed to place an orbiter in Mars orbit by 2021 and study Phobos and Deimos. It was called Phobos And Deimos...

spacecraft to lunar orbit in 2022. Artemis II sent four astronauts on a lunar flyby in 2026, becoming the only crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit not part of...

the Gromov Flight Research Institute test base. The first operational orbiter, Buran flew one test mission, designated 1K1, on November 15, 1988 at 6:00:00...

the ISRO who contributed to India's first interplanetary expedition Mars Orbiter Mission, it cast of Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Sonakshi Sinha, Taapsee...

and travel closer to the Sun. India's ISRO is developing Venus Orbiter Mission, an orbiter and an atmospheric probe with a balloon aerobot which is planned...

velocity to go into low Earth orbit, and then de-orbit before completing their first full orbit, are not considered sub-orbital. Examples of this include...

is the donation of electron density from a filled π- or p-orbital to a neighboring σ*-orbital. This phenomenon, a type of resonance, can stabilize the...

orbiter and NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter, Mars Polar Lander, and Deep Space 2 penetrators all suffering various terminal errors. Mars Climate Orbiter is...

science. Okina relayed radio communications between the orbiter and the Earth when the orbiter was behind the Moon. This allowed, for the first time, the...

reveal a lunar orbiter's final resting place". Astronomy Magazine. Retrieved 27 September 2017. "Result of controlled drop of lunar orbiter "KAGUYA (SELENE)""...

is currently orbiting Mars and taking global atmospheric temperature measurements with the TES instrument. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is currently...

Einstein crater. The impact site was captured by images from the Danuri lunar orbiter on August 7. 2001 Einstein, minor planet "Einstein". Gazetteer of Planetary...

out of the Space Shuttle orbiter, Voyager 1 and Voyager space probes were launched. NASA received the Space Shuttle orbiter later named Enterprise, on...

molecular orbitals described at absolute zero. The acronyms stand for highest occupied molecular orbital and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital, respectively...

Plane Mate system of mobile lounge to move astronauts directly from the orbiter to crew facilities. A modified vehicle obtained from Baltimore/Washington...

kilometers (0.31 to 1.18 mi) were imaged in a single observation by the Mars Orbiter Mission in the Martian southern hemisphere. On 27 September 2021, the Perseverance...

program Planetary science orbiters 2001 Mars Odyssey – NASA orbiter for geology and hydrology Akatsuki (spacecraft) – Japanese orbiter mission to Venus (2010–2024)...

modules. Those would be emplaced in low Earth orbit, polar Earth orbit, geosationary orbit, and lunar orbit. The Mars-focused aspects of the plan were supposed...

Shuttle orbiters to deploy, maneuver, and capture payloads. After the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the Canadarm was always paired with the Orbiter Boom...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) was a proposed NASA spacecraft designed to explore the icy moons of Jupiter. The main target was Europa, where an...

for 2027, the mission is designed as a demonstration flight in low Earth orbit rather than a lunar landing. Four astronauts will launch aboard the Orion...

last five used the Atlas-Centaur. The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States, starting...

the orbital speed of an astronomical body or object (e.g. planet, moon, artificial satellite, spacecraft, or star) is the speed at which it orbits around...

an orbit with a semimajor axis of 1.524 astronomical units (228 million km) (12.673 light minutes), and an eccentricity of 0.0934. The planet orbits the...

valleys. A study with the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) and the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) support the idea that...

Saturn-Shuttle was a preliminary concept of launching the Space Shuttle orbiter using a modified version of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket. It...

Propulsion Laboratory made adjustments to the orbits of its two active satellites around Mars, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey, and the European Space...

pterygopalatine fossa. It passes through the inferior orbital fissure to enter the orbit. It travels through the orbit, then enters and traverses the infraorbital...

advertised by the Breitling Orbiter 3, with both Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard wearing the Emergency. Breitling sponsored the Orbiter 3 project, which in 1999...

For instance, high-definition photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the Apollo landing sites have captured the Lunar Module descent...

the probe's exploration of the Jovian atmosphere, and an orbiter tour consisting of 11 orbits of Jupiter constituted Galileo's primary mission. On Jupiter...

the Rosetta orbiter, which featured 12 instruments, and the Philae lander, with nine additional instruments. The Rosetta mission orbited Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko...

competing mission profiles as of January 2021[update]: the 'Jupiter Callisto Orbiter' (JCO) and the 'Jupiter System Observer' (JSO). 'JCO' would involve a spacecraft...

A fixed orbit is the concept, in atomic physics, where an electron is considered to remain in a specific orbit, at a fixed distance from an atom's nucleus...

Venus Orbiter would stay in orbit throughout the 1980s and the early 1990s. The next major mission was the Magellan spacecraft, which was an orbiter capable...

The year 1967 in spaceflight saw the most orbital launches of the 20th century and more than any other year until 2021, including that of the first Australian...

Mars, and the Ranger and Lunar Orbiter uncrewed probes to the Moon. The upper stage was also used as an uncrewed orbital target vehicle for the Gemini...

Aircraft, both with the orbiter attached and for a series of drop-test flights. ** Note 2: The durations listed count only the orbiter free-flight time, and...

Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), where it was destacked and the orbiter returned to the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF), while the suspect booster underwent...

Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter and rover Lunar Flashlight solar sail orbiter Lunar IceCube lunar orbiter LunaH-Map lunar obiter...

lunar orbiter module. It was 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) tall and 75 centimetres (2.46 ft) in diameter at the base. The main propulsion systems for lunar orbit insertion...

taken at sunrise by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2011 Lunar Orbiter 4 image from 1967 Lunar Orbiter 5 image of the northeastern crater floor, showing...

An orbital spaceflight (or orbital flight) is a spaceflight in which a spacecraft is placed on a trajectory where it could remain in space for at least...

orbiter, we can map 100 percent of the planet, even terrains that are in total shadow." Stern and David Grinspoon have also suggested that an orbiter...

relatively low-resolution camera built for Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. MARCI views the surface of Mars in five visible and two...

SP189 is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5 point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit). 2011 SP189 was first observed on 29 September...

EC4 is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5 point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit). 2018 EC4 was first observed on 10 March...

smallest and largest distances between the orbiter and its host body (see second figure). For a body orbiting the Sun, the point of least distance is the...

servicing and refurbishing of the Space Shuttle orbiter would be accomplished in the adjacent Orbiter Maintenance and Checkout Facility (OMCF). The Mate-Demate...

wide was detected by the Chandrayaan-1 orbiter. Volcanism on the Moon "Marius Hills". Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. National Aeronautics and Space Administration...

A Molniya orbit (Russian: Молния, IPA: [ˈmoɫnʲɪjə] , "Lightning") is a type of satellite orbit designed to provide communications and remote sensing coverage...

the INSAT systems maintenance. India's first mission to Mars, the Mars Orbiter Mission, or Mangalyaan, reached the planet on 24 September 2014 completing...

A geosynchronous orbit (sometimes abbreviated GEO) is an Earth-centered orbit with an orbital period that matches Earth's rotation on its axis, 23 hours...

became the first rocket to land propulsively after delivering a payload into orbit. This reusability results in significantly reduced launch costs, as the...

Falcon 9 is a partially reusable, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX. The first Falcon...

Buran-class orbiter to be produced as part of the Buran programme. It was never officially named. 2.03 was a second series shuttle orbiter, as shown by...

Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) instruments. This will help determine the accuracy and effectiveness of various instruments that survey Martian geology from orbit. Search...

the orbiter. Hence, over several orbits, many different paths were to be obtained.[citation needed] The lander communicated with the Rosetta orbiter again...

analyzed together, and a citation. Mission ID LO includes all 5 Lunar Orbiter missions. The GRAIL fields are very accurate; other missions are not combined...

and its orbital axis, which is the line perpendicular to its orbital plane; equivalently, it is the angle between its equatorial plane and orbital plane...

Atmosphere Orbiter Mars Science Laboratory Giant planets: Jupiter Polar Orbiter with Probes (JPOP) Large satellites: Io Observer Ganymede Orbiter Neptune...

Year". Space.com. Retrieved 23 July 2013. SpaceDaily. "China's second moon orbiter Chang'e-2 goes to outer space". XNA. 10 June 2011. "Chinese space craft...

LEO (Lunarer Erkundungsorbiter; English: Lunar Exploration Orbiter) was the name of a proposed German mission to the Moon, announced by the German Aerospace...

(VAB) June 12, 1990, demated, and transferred to the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF). The orbiter-side 43 cm (17 in) umbilical assembly was replaced with...

SE is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5 point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit). 2009 SE was first observed on 16 September...

further supported in 1997 by the Galileo orbiter during its mission within the Jovian system. The Galileo orbiter performed three radio occultation events...

Lunar Orbiter 5 spacecraft In August 1967. The Lunar Orbiter V_041 image is archived at the Lunar and Planetary Institute website. The Lunar Orbiter V partial...

Mars Base Camp (MBC) is a crewed Mars laboratory orbiter concept under study commissioned by NASA from Lockheed Martin in the US. It would use both future...

Orbiter – launched in 2005 on a mission to study the planet Mars STEREO – launched in 2006 on a mission to study the Sun Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...

Orbit, also sold in some markets as Extra, Freedent or Yida, is a brand of sugarless chewing gum from the Wrigley Company. In the United States, where...

 14-1. Press Kit, p. 55. Press Kit, p. 38. "Apollo/Skylab ASTP and Shuttle Orbiter Major End Items" (PDF). NASA. March 1978. p. 11. Archived (PDF) from the...

智神星一号; pinyin: Zhìshénxīng Yī-hào; lit. 'Zhishenxing-1') is a medium-lift orbital launch vehicle under development by Galactic Energy. It features seven...

ODINUS mission concept proposes to expand the Uranus orbiter and probe mission to two twin orbiters— dubbed Freyr and Freyja, the twin gods of the Norse...

capsule, which landed on Earth after eight days, and a service module lunar orbiter, which remained active until at least 2018. The return capsule of Chang'e...

Aristarchus Crater". Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA. 25 December 2012. "Aristarchus Spectacular!". Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA. 25 December 2011....

microgravity. Thanks to the Extended Duration Orbiter kit, the Space Shuttle orbiter Columbia remained in orbit for almost 14 days and future missions with...

Orbiter program launched by NASA from 1966 to 1967. Most of the coverage of the far side was provided by the final probe in the series, Lunar Orbiter...

version would be capable of putting 20,000 kg (44,000 lb) into low-Earth orbit (LEO) in recoverable configuration. On 12 April 2023, after the first flight...

t ϕ ( x ) {\displaystyle u(x,t)=e^{-i\omega t}\phi (x)} is said to be orbitally stable if any solution with the initial data sufficiently close to ϕ (...

Venus Origins Explorer (VOX) is a concept orbiter mission to Venus. VOX would produce global, high resolution topography and imaging of Venus's surface...

D-Orbit (as in de-orbit) is a private aerospace company, headquartered in Italy. D-Orbit is mainly active in private spaceflight and space tug services...

SC191 is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5 point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit). 2011 SC191 was first observed on 21 March...

Venusian orbit may refer to: the orbit of Venus around the Sun a cytherocentric orbit, orbit of an object around Venus Terrestrial orbit (disambiguation)...

for a Multiple Asteroid Orbiter with Solar Electric Propulsion (MAOSEP), with one of the mission profiles including an orbit of Vesta. NASA indicated...

Chandrayaan-1 lunar remote sensing orbiter which was launched, on 22 October 2008. The Moon Impact Probe separated from the Moon-orbiting Chandrayaan-1 on 14 November...

Orbital mechanics , astrodynamics or space dynamics is the application of ballistics and celestial mechanics to rockets, satellites, and other spacecraft...

graveyard orbit, also called a junk orbit or disposal orbit, is an orbit that lies away from common operational orbits. One significant graveyard orbit is a...

subsynchronous orbit of Mars with an orbital period of only 0.32 days. The outer moon Deimos is in supersynchronous orbit around Mars. The Mars Orbiter Mission—currently...

(1973–1975) Magellan (spacecraft) – NASA orbiter mission to Venus (1989–1994) Venus Express – European orbiter mission to Venus (2005–2015) "NASA Solar...

they either negligently manufactured or sold the Orbiter, or were strictly liable because the Orbiter was unreasonably dangerous when it left their 4 (8th...

ISRO since 1997. She played a key role in the development of India's Mars Orbiter Mission, Mangalyaan, dealing with the detailing and the execution of the...

branch of the ophthalmic artery. It passes anteriorly within the orbit to exit the orbit through the supraorbital foramen or notch alongside the supraorbital...

Surveyor was to map the surface of Mars using the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC), the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), the Thermal Emission Spectrometer...

April 2021 the ISRO Chandrayaan-2 orbiter captured an image of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle descent stage. The orbiter's image of Tranquility Base, the...

the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) launched to Mars orbit on 14 March 2016. NOMAD is designed to perform high-sensitivity orbital identification of atmospheric...

An orbital node is either of the two points where an orbiting object intersects a plane of reference inclined with respect to the orbital plane. A non-inclined...

scientific exploration of the Neptune system was considered to be a flagship orbiter mission. Such a hypothetical mission was envisioned to be possible in the...

down and the orbiter dove to pick up airspeed over the wings and transition to level flight. Expected re-entry heating rates on the orbiter were 1650 deg...

Virgin Orbit was a company within the Virgin Group that provided launch services for small satellites. The company was formed in 2017 as a spin-off of...

from a variety of space missions including Cassini–Huygens and the Viking Orbiter. "VICAR user's guide". NASA. Retrieved 30 April 2013. Deen, Robert G. "The...

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Close-up of dunes on floor of Proctor crater, as seen by CTX camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This is an enlargement...

asteroid orbiting near the L4 point of Mars (60 degrees ahead Mars on its orbit). As of April 2024, it is one of only two known asteroids to orbit the leading...

War II Oceanus (Titan orbiter), a proposed orbiter mission to Saturn's moon Titan Oceanus (Uranus orbiter), a proposed orbiter named as an acronym for...

nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 30 November 2022. "China's 1st Moon orbiter enters Earth orbit". Xinhua News Agency. 24 October 2007. Archived from the original...

discussion regarding its effects on astronomy and orbital congestion. Constellations of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites were first conceptualized in the...

Reconnaissance Orbiter, along with the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative developing the VIPER rover and Lunar Trailblazer orbiter. "NASA FY 2019...

for the first time with the orbiter Chang'e 1 (2007–2009), obtaining a full image map of the Moon. India reached, orbited, and impacted the Moon in 2008...

Reconnaissance Orbiter). A study of images taken with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests that...

while the orbiter would be equipped either with an RTG or with solar panels. If the lander is launched together with JUICE, then the Russian orbiter would...

would have included an orbiter, a lander and a rover. It was intended as a successor to the 2007 SELENE (Kaguya) lunar orbiter. Instead of SELENE-2, JAXA...

JET orbiter mission concept was proposed in 2011 by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to NASA's Discovery Program Mission #13. During the orbiter's one-year...

CP31 is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5 point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit). 2016 CP31 was first observed on 7 February...

A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5...

LM's exhaust plume, was observed by a camera aboard the Japanese lunar orbiter SELENE and confirmed by comparative analysis of photographs in May 2008...

in the aft structure of the Space Shuttle orbiter in the Orbiter Processing Facility prior to the orbiter being transferred to the Vehicle Assembly Building...

The maxilla consists of: The body of the maxilla: pyramid-shaped; has an orbital, a nasal, an infratemporal, and a facial surface; contains the maxillary...

then up to mach 6 with rocket engines. The smaller "orbiter" would then detach and accelerate into orbit with LOX/LH2 rocket engines with a payload of up...

Administration (CNSA) has launched its Tianwen-1 mission, which includes an orbiter, a lander, a small rover and a group of deployable and remote cameras;...

the lunar surface. Orbiter spacecraft require less thrust and propellant than landers, but still require enough to achieve lunar orbit insertion. Luna 10...

Saenger or Sänger was a West German concept design for a two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane. It is named after Eugen Sänger, who had been a key figure in the...

try on the mission's 37th orbit, because the orbiter was not at the correct attitude. It was successfully deployed on orbit 64. Discovery landed at Edwards...

Solid Rocket Boosters, its RS-25 engines and the Space Shuttle orbiter that acted as an orbital insertion stage, but it did not reuse the External Tank that...

15) was a spacecraft sent to Venus by the Soviet Union. This uncrewed orbiter was to map the surface of Venus using high resolution imaging systems....

In orbital mechanics, a frozen orbit is an orbit for an artificial satellite in which perturbations have been minimized by careful selection of the orbital...

intended to go into Mars orbit and return images and data, but a launch vehicle failure prevented Mariner 8 from achieving Earth orbit and the spacecraft reentered...

sample-return mission, that would consist of an orbiter and a lander with an ascent module. The orbiter would be equipped with a camera, a thermal imager...

Reports to the Launch Director. The Orbiter Test Conductor is in charge of all pre-flight checkout and testing of the orbiter, and manages the engineers in...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was the first object identified in the asteroid belt, discovered...

Reconnaissance Orbiter images of the Surveyor 3 landing site". Archived from the original on 2009-09-05. Retrieved 2009-09-04. "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter returns...

UB256 is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5 point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit). 2011 UB256 was first observed on 29 October...

spacecraft launched as part of the Mars programme, it successfully entered orbit around Mars in 1974. However, it failed a few weeks later. The Mars 5 spacecraft...

mode service. However, for orbiter-lander missions there is a specific frequency allocation for the service. The four orbiter-lander CW beacon mode frequencies...

the mission saw the first rendezvous of a Space Shuttle with Mir as the orbiter approached within 37 feet (11 m) of the station as a dress rehearsal for...

Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND), the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA), the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), and the Miniature Radio Frequency...

roll and yaw. Reviewer Rene Coulon noted the Orbiter's design for both its aesthetics and robustness. Orbiter Model with a 14.5 hp (11 kW) Radne Raket 120...

The Orbital Children (Japanese: 地球外少年少女, Hepburn: Chikyūgai Shōnen Shōjo; transl. "Extraterrestrial Boys and Girls") is a Japanese science fiction anime...

orbits (GEO), 10 in 55° inclined geosynchronous orbits (IGSO) and 27 in Medium Earth orbits (MEO). Furthermore, 8 satellites (4 in Medium Earth orbit...

Electron is a two-stage, expendable orbital launch vehicle developed by Rocket Lab, a publicly traded aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider...

System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly...

ODERACS-2 (Orbital Debris Radar Calibration Sphere 2) was a series of six spheres deployed from the shuttle mission STS-63, ODERACS-2A through -2. The...

sp2-hybridized orbital and a p-orbital that is not involved in the hybridization. A triple bond is formed with an sp-hybridized orbital and two p-orbitals from...

missions, including payload delivery to low Earth orbit (LEO), payload delivery to high-energy orbits with a K-1 Active Dispenser, technology demonstration...

approach to implementing a sustainable commercial service to support both orbiting and landed lunar assets. Dozens of different commercial, private and public...

the 1990s. The X-33 was a technology demonstrator for the VentureStar orbital spaceplane, which was planned to be a next-generation, commercially operated...

primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements" and data available from the Minor Planet Center. Critical list...

The orbital module is a compartment of some space capsules used only in orbit. It is separated from the crewed reentry capsule before reentry. The orbital...

inferior or orbital surface of the frontal lobe is concave, and rests on the orbital plate of the frontal bone. It is divided into four orbital gyri by a...

astronomy and astrodynamics the osculating orbit of an object in space at a given moment in time is the orbit it would have around its central body if perturbations...

were carried on Mars Polar Lander, Mars Climate Orbiter, 2001 Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Phoenix lander. One of the most successful...

2025. "Why Europe's Solar Orbiter is Angling towards The Sun's Poles | ESA". Retrieved 23 November 2025. "Successful Solar Orbiter gravity assist manoeuvre...

Orbital welding is a specialized area of arc welding whereby the arc is rotated mechanically through 360° (180° in double up welding) around a static...

In mathematics, an orbital integral is an integral transform that generalizes the spherical mean operator to homogeneous spaces. Instead of integrating...

program of Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter and Apollo backup support almost fully utilized the DSN. The Pioneer, Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter programs all supplied mission-dependent...

five-hour elliptical polar orbit with a periapsis of about 400 km at 13 degrees south latitude and an apoapsis of 8,300 km. Each orbit consisted of an 80-minute...

Orbital ATK Inc. was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense industry company. It was formed in February 9, 2015, from the merger of Orbital Sciences...

Strange Cargo is the second album by the English musician William Orbit, released on 2 November 1987. It is the first in a series of similarly titled...

a Modern Style is the sixth album by electronic instrumentalist William Orbit. He is credited as arranger, programmer, producer, and performer of the...

other than Earth and the Sun (in heliocentric orbit). Luna 10 conducted extensive research in lunar orbit, gathering important data on the strength of...

site. The impact site was later identified by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Originally named the Luna-Glob lander, the mission was renamed Luna 25...

center) and Ascraeus Mons (in the north). Image mosaic is from Viking 1 Orbiter (1980). Arsia Mons, southernmost peak of Tharsis Montes. Pavonis Mons,...

payload developed by JPL. It will be used to commission the Lunar Pathfinder orbiter. Once deployed to the surface SPIDER will collect seismic data while remaining...

zygomatic bone and the maxilla, on which it separates the anterior and the orbital surface of the body of the maxilla. It is an attachment for the levator...

Retrieved February 23, 2025. Zak, Anatoly (25 December 2018). "Buran reusable orbiter". Russian Space Web. Retrieved 28 June 2019. Richelson, Jeffrey T. (2001)...

larger outer planets of the Solar System, will eventually either leave its orbit around the planet or collide with the planet. The only observed examples...

and Astrobiology 2023–2032 Centaur Orbiter and Lander Ceres Sample Return Enceladus Multiple Flyby Titan Orbiter v t e New Horizons, a mission to Pluto...

Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way, rising to 40 billion if planets orbiting the numerous red dwarfs are included. The least massive exoplanet known...

exploration program designed by NASA to provide cheaper planetary orbiters by using Earth-orbiting satellite components and technology, using solar panels for...

The Lunar Volatile and Mineralogy Mapping Orbiter (VMMO) is a future uncrewed lunar orbiter in the form of a 16U CubeSat, under development by the European...

| Lunar Orbiter 1". NASA Solar System Exploration. Archived from the original on 2018-11-15. Retrieved 2023-02-04. "In Depth | Lunar Orbiter 4". NASA...

quasi-orbits around the Martian moon Phobos. Launched June 18, 2009, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting...

2011 SL25 is an asteroid and Mars trojan candidate that shares the orbit of the planet Mars at its L5 point. 2011 SL25 was discovered on 21 September...

quadrant, located out on booms at the maximum radius that the Space Shuttle Orbiter Payload Bay would accommodate (4.4-m or 14.5-ft diameter). The actual propulsion...

L1 since 1995 Solar Orbiter – European space-based solar observatory Solar Polar Orbit Observatory – Planned Chinese solar orbiter Pioneer H "Ulysses"...

Surveyor 6 Surveyor 7 Lunar Orbiter program Lunar Orbiter 1 Lunar Orbiter 2 Lunar Orbiter 3 Lunar Orbiter 4 Lunar Orbiter 5 Apollo program Apollo 8 Apollo...

Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B on January 28, 1986, destroyed the orbiter and killed all seven crew members—Commander Francis R. "Dick" Scobee, Pilot...

but the decision was made to continue development with its orbiter counterpart. The orbiter launched as 2001 Mars Odyssey in April 2001, in a mission independent...

lower-than-planned orbit. Both satellites were retrieved successfully in November 1984 during STS-51-A, which was conducted by the orbiter Discovery. On February...

delivered by MAV in low Mars orbit (LMO). The ERO orbiter was planned to weigh ~7,000 kg (15,000 lb) (largest Mars Orbiter) and have solar arrays resulting...

band originally formed in Salt Lake City, Utah. They released one album, Orbitals in 2003 on Universal Records, before disbanding shortly afterwards. The...

Orbital decay is a gradual decrease of the distance between two orbiting bodies at their closest approach (the periapsis) over many orbital periods. These...

and landing. It was a visible result of a Soviet project to create an orbital spaceplane. The MiG 105 was nicknamed "Lapot" (Russian: лапоть, or bast...

primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements" and data available from the Minor Planet Center. Critical list...

Mars trojan orbiting near the L5 point of Mars. 2007 NS2 was discovered on 14 July 2007, by the Observatorio Astronómico de La Sagra. Its orbit is characterized...

(MR-157) titled "Eatin' Dust": "Eatin' Dust" – 3:08 "Shift Kicker" – 3:00 "Orbiter" – 3:13 "Mongoose" – 6:12 CD 1999 (MR-157 cd) titled as Eatin' Dust; LP...

Mercury-P (Russian: Меркурий-П) is a mission concept for an orbiter and lander by the Russian Federal Space Agency to study the planet Mercury. The letter...

Jupiter orbiter Juno – current Jupiter orbiter Europa Clipper – NASA space mission to Jupiter and Europa Tianwen-4 – planned Jupiter/Callisto orbiter Jupiter...

planned to be: the Solar Orbiter, the Pluto and Kuiper belt reconnaissance Pluto Kuiper Express mission, and the Europa Orbiter astrobiology mission focused...

megt90n000eb.lbl Olympus Mons, Arsia Mons, Alba Patera: Viking Orbiter Views of Mars by the Viking Orbiter Imaging Team. Ascraeus Mons: Malin Space Science Systems...

to Mars, a tweak of DRA 5.0. Spaceflight portal Mars Base Camp, a Mars orbiter station Human mission to Mars Mars cycler Space rendezvous Mars Excursion...

Abdrakhimov found both the lander and the rover in Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) image M114185541RC (Line 21977, Sample 3189). In April 2010, the...

astronomy, Kepler's laws of planetary motion give good approximations for the orbits of planets around the Sun. They were published by Johannes Kepler from 1609...

Interferometry Mission - 2010 Mars Telecommunications Orbiter - 2009 Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter - 2005 Europa Orbiter - 2002 Deep Space 3 (a.k.a. Starlight) Deep...

place an orbiter, lander, and rover on Mars List of missions to Mars Lakdawalla, Emily (9 September 2010). "China's Yinghuo-1 Mars Orbiter". The Planetary...

Phobos with orbiter and lander since 2007.[citation needed] Since 2013 NASA developed the Phobos Surveyor mission concept with an orbiter and a small...

minute orbital branches which pass through the inferior orbital fissure to enter the orbit and innervate the periosteum of the floor of the orbit, and the...

mechanics, orbital resonance occurs when orbiting bodies exert regular, periodic gravitational influence on each other, usually because their orbital periods...

2011 UN63 is a Mars trojan, an asteroid orbiting near the L5 point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit). 2011 UN63 was first observed on 27 September...

supported the Chandrayaan-1 and Mars Orbiter Mission mission operations. Currently, it supports the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, the Aditya-L1 mission and Chandrayaan-3...

nearly 70 tonnes (150,000 lb) to the orbit. A two-stage-to-orbit system operating a dedicated reusable orbiter. German Aerospace Center studied Liquid...

The European Student Moon Orbiter (ESMO) was a proposed European student mission to the Moon. Student teams from 19 universities throughout Europe worked...

Astrogeology Science Center Lunar Orbiter 3 image 154 H2, used for planning the mission (landing site is left of center). Lunar Orbiter 1 sequence of images 157...

Emirates Mars Mission with the orbiter Hope on July 19, 2020) and China (the Tianwen-1 mission on July 23, 2020, with an orbiter, deployable and remote cameras...

orbiter, Mars Express, and ISRO's orbiter Mangalyaan, reported a healthy status after the comet flyby on 19 October 2014. During the flyby, orbiters around...

religions. Comets usually have highly eccentric elliptical orbits, and they have a wide range of orbital periods, ranging from several years to potentially several...

Shuttle orbiter that also acted as a second stage, and the engines used by the core stage (the RS-25, which was located at the back of the orbiter), however...

probes, Mariner 8 and Mariner 9, with the aim of becoming the first Mars orbiter. As it was, Mariner 8 was lost in a launch failure two days before Kosmos...

the values visited or approached asymptotically (fixed points, periodic orbits, or chaotic attractors) of a system as a function of a bifurcation parameter...

seconds in orbit. The crew conducted a multitude of international scientific experiments. The disaster occurred during reentry while the orbiter was over...

commercial success. In the space age, the Jetsons are a family residing in Orbit City. The city's architecture is rendered in the Googie style and all homes...

of the landing site measured by satellites currently orbiting Mars. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter also helps this cause in the sense that its cameras...

Terrestrial orbit may refer to: the orbit of the Earth around the Sun a geocentric orbit, orbit of an object around the Earth a geosynchronous orbit a geostationary...

trochlear fovea is a slight depression on the anteromedial orbital surface of the orbital plate of the frontal bone. Attached to the trochlear fovea is...

Resolution Stereo Camera, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera NAC, Mars Global Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Camera WAC, and the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer...

mission, on 23 July 2020. It includes an orbiter, a lander and a 240 kilograms rover. The orbiter was placed into orbit on 10 February 2021. The Zhurong successfully...

on lunar exploration. 2022 saw the launch of NASA's CAPSTONE orbiter, KARI's Danuri orbiter and NASA's Artemis 1, the first mission of the Artemis program...

In celestial mechanics, a Kepler orbit (or Keplerian orbit, named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler) is the motion of one body relative to another...

An orbital ring is a concept of an artificial ring placed around a body and set rotating at such a rate that the apparent centrifugal force is large enough...

so-called family portrait of the Earth, Venus and Mars was taken by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft on 18 November 2020. Family Portrait, taken by Voyager 1, February...

with the European Space Agency (ESA), Trace Gas Orbiter, entered orbit in 2016; its Venera-17 orbiter/lander Venus mission launch was postponed beyond...

sandwich Solar Orbiter, launched in 2020 BepiColombo, Mercury orbiter, with Optical Solar Reflectors (acting as a sunshade) on the Planetary Orbiter component...

orbital on one atom overlap with two lobes of an orbital on another atom, and in which this overlap occurs laterally. Each of these atomic orbitals has...

A polar orbit is one in which a satellite passes above or nearly above both poles of the body being orbited (usually a planet such as the Earth, but possibly...

or a kinetic orbital strike is the hypothetical act of attacking a planetary surface with an inert kinetic projectile from orbit (orbital bombardment)...

ESA. Missions under development include ESA's EnVision orbiter mission, NASA's VERITAS orbiter mission, and NASA's DAVINCI entry probe/flyby mission....

from its manufacturing facility in Louisiana by barge, and the orbiter waited in the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF). The SRBs were first stacked in the...

capable of carrying crew and cargo. Missions beyond low Earth orbit would require multiple in-orbit refueling flights. At the end of its mission, Starship reenters...

orbiter was about 75 meters (246 ft) from Mir, pending approval from Russian and U.S. flight directors to proceed. Gibson then maneuvered the orbiter...

uninterrupted circumnavigation of the world on board a balloon, the Breitling Orbiter 3. They set off on 1 March 1999 from Château d'Oex in Switzerland and landed...

(Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) Context Camera, the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera, and the MOC (Mars Orbiter Camera). The halo...

crewed landing. Based on high-resolution photographs taken by the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft, and photos and data taken by the uncrewed Surveyor landers...

producer William Orbit. Its recording process was the longest of Madonna's career and was frequently delayed by problems with Orbit's hardware setup, which...

payload on NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer lunar orbiter. The LLCD pulsed laser system conducted a successful test on October 18...

Ellipses are common in physics, astronomy and engineering. For example, the orbit of each planet in the Solar System is approximately an ellipse with the...

Jupiter and Saturn on cometary orbits. Having compiled a list of 24 comet observations, he calculated that the orbital elements of a second comet that...

circular orbit and in the same orbital plane as Earth, there would be total solar eclipses at every new moon. Instead, because the Moon's orbit is tilted...

Moon's Eratosthenian period. Later analysis using data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter places Shackleton's formation 3.69 billion years ago, during...

In anatomical terms, it is located below the infraorbital margin of the orbit. It transmits the infraorbital artery and vein, and the infraorbital nerve...

In chemistry, molecular orbital theory (MO theory or MOT) is a method for describing the electronic structure of molecules using quantum mechanics. It...

Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter (ODY) at speeds up to 2 Mbit/s and 256 kbit/s, respectively, but each orbiter is only able to...

A circular orbit is an orbit with a fixed distance around the barycenter; that is, in the shape of a circle. In this case, not only the distance, but...

energy astrophysics), Mars Express (Mars orbiter), Rosetta (mission to comet), Venus Express (Venus orbiter), Herschel Space Observatory (investigation...

primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements" and data available from the Minor Planet Center. Critical list...

top deck of the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter. It was released from the orbiter on a ballistic trajectory towards Mars on 19 December...

Three LK modules, of the T2K variant, were flown without crew in Earth orbit, but no LK ever reached the Moon. The development of the N1 launch vehicle...

Phase 1 incorporates the launch and operation of a lunar orbiter called Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), which will be the first lunar probe by South...