A heliocentric orbit (also called circumsolar orbit) is an orbit around the barycenter of the Solar System, which is usually located within or very near...

Heliocentrism (also known as the heliocentric model) is a superseded astronomical model in which the Earth and planets orbit around the Sun at the center...

galaxy. The Sun follows this type of orbit about the Galactic Center of the Milky Way. Heliocentric orbit: An orbit around the Sun. In the Solar System...

diverted out of L1 in 1983 for a comet rendezvous mission. Currently in heliocentric orbit. The Sun–Earth L1 is also the point to which the Reboot ISEE-3 mission...

halo orbits, orbits around the Sun-Earth Lagrange points, with orbits increasingly being heliocentric, co-orbiting with Earth the Sun before orbits go deeper...

is a list of artificial objects currently[update] in heliocentric orbit, but not intended to orbit or land on any planetary or satellite body. This list...

cosmos. Thus, his heliocentric model retained several of the Ptolemaic elements, causing inaccuracies, such as the planets' circular orbits, epicycles, and...

Explorer-3 (ISEE-3) satellite, was launched on 12 August 1978 into a heliocentric orbit. It was one of three spacecraft, along with the mother/daughter pair...

orbit for an orbit around Earth and heliocentric orbit for an orbit around the Sun. As with these other orbits, the apsides of an areocentric orbit are...

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...

to operate in heliocentric orbit or at one of the Earth–Sun Lagrangian points – additional solar observatories were placed in Earth orbit and are not included...

lunar flyby, a Tesla Roadster demonstration payload to a heliocentric orbit extending past the orbit of Mars, DART and Hera to the asteroid Didymos, Euclid...

Earth's orbit List of orbits Orbital mechanics Celestial sphere Heliocentric orbit Areosynchronous orbit Areostationary orbit Escape velocity Satellite...

(Apollo 10's Snoopy) was discarded in a heliocentric orbit after its descent stage was discarded in lunar orbit. The other three LMs were destroyed during...

close to spherical. Given the orbital eccentricity of this object, different epochs can generate quite different heliocentric unperturbed two-body best-fit...

is useful to know whether a probe will continue to orbit the Earth or escape to a heliocentric orbit. It is also useful to know how much a probe will need...

liftoff. Mariner 2 – Defunct after successful mission, occupies a heliocentric orbit. Sisterships Mariner 3 and Mariner 4 were Mars flyby missions. Mariner...

term geocentric orbit for an orbit around Earth and heliocentric orbit for an orbit around the Sun. The apsides of an Cytherocentric orbit are pericytherion...

orbit (LEO). Heavy-lift launch vehicles often carry payloads into higher-energy orbits, such as geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) or heliocentric orbit...

System, a heliocentric reference frame (relative to the gravitational center of the Sun) is sufficient to explain their orbits. However, as the orbits of objects...

with each side 2.5 million kilometers long, flying in an Earth-like heliocentric orbit. The distance between the satellites is precisely monitored to detect...

an escape trajectory and entered an elliptical heliocentric orbit crossing the orbit of Mars. The orbit reaches a maximum distance from the Sun at aphelion...

tasks:: 42  Orbit manoeuvres to transfer the spacecraft from Earth-centred orbit to heliocentric trajectory and finally, capture into Martian orbit Development...

space probes which have escaped Earth orbit. It includes lunar space probes, but does not include space probes orbiting at the Sun–Earth Lagrangian points...

J-2 rocket engine. For lunar missions it was fired twice: first for Earth orbit insertion after second stage cutoff, and then for translunar injection (TLI)...

For a geocentric orbit, Earth's equatorial plane. In this case, non-inclined orbits are called equatorial. For a heliocentric orbit, the ecliptic or invariable...

specific types of orbits, terms such as argument of perihelion (for heliocentric orbits), argument of perigee (for geocentric orbits), argument of periastron...

nearest point in a heliocentric orbit. Earth's two apsides are the farthest point, aphelion, and the nearest point, perihelion, of its orbit around the host...

injected into a permanent heliocentric orbit in November 1969, but is now believed instead to have gone into an unstable high Earth orbit which left Earth's...

captured from heliocentric orbit. Triton is unusual as it is the only known large moon on a retrograde, highly-inclined orbit; that is, Triton orbits in the...