A trans-Earth injection (TEI) is a propulsion maneuver used to set a spacecraft on a trajectory which will intersect the Earth's sphere of influence, usually...
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A trans-lunar injection (TLI) is a propulsive maneuver, which is used to send a spacecraft to the Moon. Typical lunar transfer trajectories approximate...
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Apollo 8 (section Launch and trans-lunar injection)
you—all of you on the good Earth." The only task left for the crew at this point was to perform the trans-Earth injection (TEI), which was scheduled for...
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Heliocentric orbit (redirect from Trans-Mars injection)
upper-stage burn caused it to miss its planned impact on the Moon. A trans-Mars injection (TMI) is a heliocentric orbit in which a propulsive maneuver is used...
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Application Portfolio Management) Trans Earth Injection, the procedure that a spacecraft performs to get back into the Earth's gravitational influence Triethylindium...
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Apogee Motor (LAM) for return operation maneuvers including the trans-Earth injection. As per earlier reports, the lander module will have six throttleable...
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and trans-Earth injection, as well as life support equipment to keep the crew alive until they returned to Earth. Launch and trans-Lunar injection would...
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York Times (25 July 2005) Apollo 11 Flight Journal – Day 6 part 4: Trans-Earth Injection. History.nasa.gov (15 March 2011). Retrieved on 2012-04-28. Jerome...
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lunar module. The command module completed its trans-Earth injection burn and began its flight back to Earth, during which time Mattingly performed an EVA...
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not pass over India. After a series of Earth bound manoeuvres that placed Chandrayaan-3 in a trans-lunar injection orbit, ISRO performed a lunar-orbit insertion...
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8's second television transmission and subsequent preparation for trans-Earth injection. Mattingly then trained in parallel with Bill Anders for Apollo...
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flow structures, from Apollo 16 View of King during Apollo 16's trans-earth injection King, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical...
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Orbital maneuver (redirect from Orbit injection)
orbit injection maneuvers occur when a spacecraft enters a transfer orbit, e.g. trans-lunar injection (TLI), trans-Mars injection (TMI) and trans-Earth injection...
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Author's note on page 206. Apollo 11 Flight Journal – Day 6 part 4: Trans-Earth Injection. History.nasa.gov (15 March 2011). Retrieved on 2012-04-28. Moskowitz...
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launched a lunar "subsatellite" before the astronauts performed the Trans-Earth Injection burn with the onboard service propulsion system.[citation needed]...
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Apollo 17 (section Return to Earth)
a trajectory back towards Earth. The trans-Earth injection SPS burn lasted just over two minutes. During the return to Earth, Evans performed a 65-minute...
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RETRO – Retrofire Officer (responsible for abort procedures and Trans-Earth Injection, or TEI, retrofire burns) FIDO – Flight Dynamics Officer (responsible...
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out of orbit and crash on the surface. Trans-Earth injection The SM engine fires to send the CSM back to Earth. The SM is jettisoned just before reentry...
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service module's service propulsion system from first flight in 1966. Trans-Earth injection, from lunar orbit, was the most critical usage of this engine during...
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Fobos-Grunt (section Sample return to Earth)
failed, leaving it stranded in low Earth orbit. Efforts to reactivate the craft were unsuccessful, and it fell back to Earth in an uncontrolled re-entry on...
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off waves registered by the seismometers from Apollo 12 and 14. A trans-earth injection burn took place on February 6 at 8:39:04 pm (February 7 at 01:39:04...
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James Irwin (category American Christian Young Earth creationists)
is under, well, we can't do better than zero g." During the post-trans-Earth injection (TEI) phase of the mission there wasn't much more for Irwin to do...
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insertion Trans-lunar injection Trans-Earth injection Gemini 6A, Gemini 8, Gemini 9A, Gemini 10, Gemini 11, and Gemini 12 Apollo 9 in Earth orbit; in...
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Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is a proposed method of solar geoengineering (or solar radiation modification) to reduce global warming. This would...
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Constellation program (section Earth Departure Stage)
jettisoning the Altair, the crew would perform the Trans Earth Injection (TEI) burn for the return trip to Earth. After a two-and-a-half-day coast, the crew...
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Once in Earth parking orbit, the crew carefully checked out their spacecraft before re-igniting the S-IVB third stage for trans-lunar injection. The lightning...
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agency. The record was set because the Moon was nearly at its furthest from Earth during the mission. Apollo 13's unique free return trajectory caused it...
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CEV stack would be the Propulsion or Trans-Earth Injection Module (TEIM) which would provide for return to the Earth from the Moon. It would probably incorporate...
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they fired their engine to perform the first trans-Earth injection to leave lunar orbit and return to the Earth. Apollo 8 safely landed in the Pacific Ocean...
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NASA believed the SM RCS would be able to act as a backup for a trans-Earth injection burn in case the main SM engine failed. A pair of liquid oxygen...
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