orbit@home was a BOINC-based volunteer computing project of the Planetary Science Institute. It uses the "Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis"... 2 KB (221 words) - 22:19, 6 November 2022 |
orbit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of one object around a point or another body. Orbit... 3 KB (443 words) - 15:43, 5 February 2024 |
Mark Wainwright (born 15 December 1956), known professionally as William Orbit, is an English musician and record producer who has sold 200 million recordings... 32 KB (2,182 words) - 01:35, 28 April 2024 |
A parking orbit is a temporary orbit used during the launch of a spacecraft. A launch vehicle boosts into the parking orbit, then coasts for a while,... 8 KB (855 words) - 07:02, 25 July 2023 |
2007 Orbit Bexley and Thanet Community were merged to form Orbit South. Orbit is active in promoting shared ownership as well as providing homes for affordable... 3 KB (388 words) - 16:06, 13 February 2024 |
Lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) is a process for landing humans on the Moon and returning them to Earth. It was utilized for the Apollo program missions... 19 KB (2,218 words) - 07:28, 9 February 2024 |
Tunguska impact. The team suspected that 2005 NB56's orbit likely fits with the modelled orbit of the Tunguska object, even with the effects of weak... 75 KB (8,960 words) - 04:14, 26 April 2024 |
Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan (from Sanskrit Maṅgala, 'Mars', and yāna, 'craft, vehicle'), was a space probe orbiting Mars... 90 KB (7,923 words) - 12:06, 22 April 2024 |
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (redirect from Spinhenge@home) projects are Asteroids@home, Einstein@Home, LHC@home, Moo! Wrapper, Rosetta@home, Universe@Home, World Community Grid and Yoyo@home [ru]. As of September... 59 KB (3,380 words) - 21:05, 27 April 2024 |
Mercury (planet) (redirect from Mercury's orbit) (58.65 Earth days) are in a 3:2 ratio. This relationship is called spin–orbit resonance, and sidereal here means "relative to the stars". Consequently... 155 KB (15,816 words) - 08:17, 20 April 2024 |
Near-Earth object (section Orbital classification) A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) is less than 1.3 times the Earth–Sun... 146 KB (15,424 words) - 12:30, 29 April 2024 |
Orbiter is a space flight simulator program developed to simulate spaceflight using realistic Newtonian physics. The simulator was released on 27 November... 19 KB (1,970 words) - 15:23, 20 October 2023 |
Cartoon Orbit was a children's online gaming network created by Turner Online to promote its shows and partners. Launched as an addition to the Cartoon... 23 KB (2,706 words) - 05:59, 17 February 2024 |
for the GNOME project, but has seen use outside of the project. Free and open-source software portal ORBit2 Home Page ORBit Resource Page v t e v t e... 2 KB (88 words) - 13:38, 27 December 2023 |
Orbit is the name given to Major League Baseball's Houston Astros mascot, a lime-green alien wearing an Astros jersey with antennae extending into baseballs... 6 KB (850 words) - 20:53, 16 June 2023 |
Space debris (redirect from Storage orbit) debris) are defunct human-made objects in space – principally in Earth orbit – which no longer serve a useful function. These include derelict spacecraft... 169 KB (17,198 words) - 14:47, 28 April 2024 |
Jupiter (redirect from Jovian orbit) one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter orbits the Sun at a distance of 5.20 AU (778.5 Gm) with an orbital period of 11.86 years. It is the third brightest... 175 KB (16,459 words) - 09:50, 29 April 2024 |
Lagrange point (redirect from Lagrange orbit) 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... 50 KB (5,705 words) - 15:45, 18 April 2024 |
Retrograde and prograde motion (redirect from Retrograde orbit) Retrograde motion in astronomy is, in general, orbital or rotational motion of an object in the direction opposite the rotation of its primary, that is... 40 KB (4,640 words) - 20:29, 3 March 2024 |
DarkOrbit, later renamed to DarkOrbit: Reloaded is a massively multiplayer online game developed by Bigpoint Games. The game is set in outer space, where... 16 KB (2,185 words) - 12:02, 28 March 2024 |
Planet Nine (section Orbit) the peculiar clustering of orbits for a group of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs), bodies beyond Neptune that orbit the Sun at distances averaging... 177 KB (18,856 words) - 13:54, 6 April 2024 |
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by LRO... 38 KB (3,330 words) - 12:42, 27 April 2024 |
Solar System (section Galactic position and orbit) System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it. It was formed 4.6 billion years ago when a dense region of a molecular... 205 KB (20,703 words) - 04:27, 30 April 2024 |
Chandrayaan-3 (section Orbit) from Earth orbit to lunar orbit. Chandrayaan-3 was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on 14 July 2023. The spacecraft entered lunar orbit on 5 August... 86 KB (6,794 words) - 02:14, 25 April 2024 |
Orbital Sciences Corporation (commonly referred to as Orbital) was an American company specializing in the design, manufacture, and launch of small- and... 45 KB (4,528 words) - 18:10, 1 February 2024 |
Starlink (redirect from Proliferated Low Earth Orbit program) it consists of over 6,000 mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) that communicate with designated ground transceivers. Nearly 12,000 satellites... 266 KB (22,466 words) - 05:10, 27 April 2024 |
Orbit Publications, also known as Orbit-Wanted, was an American comic book publishing house operated by the female publisher, editor, and cartoonist Ray... 4 KB (279 words) - 17:05, 31 December 2022 |