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    Transposition, docking, and extraction (often abbreviated to transposition and docking) was a maneuver performed during Apollo lunar landing missions from...
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  • conductors of a transmission line Transposition cipher, an elementary cryptographic operation Transposition, docking, and extraction an orbital maneuver performed...
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    Salyut[citation needed] In the Apollo spacecraft, a maneuver known as transposition, docking, and extraction was performed an hour or so after Trans Lunar Injection...
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  • Transposition and docking, formally Transposition, docking, and extraction, a maneuver performed in space flight Training and development, a function of human...
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    apsides are called aphelion (farthest) and perihelion (nearest). The Moon's two apsides are the farthest point, apogee, and the nearest point, perigee, of its...
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    direction and completes one revolution relative to the Vernal Equinox and the stars in about 27.32 days (a tropical month and sidereal month) and one revolution...
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  • motivated by the desire to understand the motions of the Sun, Moon, planets, and visible stars. In the 20th century, understanding the dynamics of globular...
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  • with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25. Most of the artificial objects in outer space...
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    and twenty minutes later, the CSM separated from the S-IVB, after which Gordon performed the transposition, docking, and extraction maneuver to dock with...
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    mission required the LM to dock with the CSM on return from the Moon, and also in the transposition, docking, and extraction maneuver at the beginning...
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    launch. The CSM and LM separated from the spent third stage 50 minutes later, in a maneuver known as transposition, docking, and extraction. If it were to...
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    620 mph), which is fast enough to cover the planet's diameter in 7 minutes and the distance to the Moon in 4 hours. From a vantage point above the north...
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    independently derived it and published it in 1903, although it had been independently derived and published by William Moore in 1810, and later published in...
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    trajectory toward the Moon. About thirty minutes later, the transposition, docking, and extraction maneuver was performed: this involved separating the command...
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    required first a transposition, docking, and extraction maneuver between the Apollo command and service module (CSM) mother spacecraft and the Lunar Module...
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    minutes later, with Collins in the left seat and at the controls, the transposition, docking, and extraction maneuver was performed. This involved separating...
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    performed the transposition, docking, and extraction maneuver. This involved separating Columbia from the spent S-IVB stage, turning around, and docking with the...
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    is 0. The eccentricity of an ellipse which is not a circle is between 0 and 1. The eccentricity of a parabola is 1. The eccentricity of a hyperbola is...
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    Alexander; Waugh, Lennox J. (February 17, 2017). "Day 1: Transposition, Docking and Extraction". Apollo Lunar Flight Journal. Retrieved August 12, 2019...
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    Kepler's laws of planetary motion, published by Johannes Kepler between 1609 and 1619, describe the orbits of planets around the Sun. The laws modified the...
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    calculation and understanding of the exact mechanics of orbital motion. Historically, the apparent motions of the planets were described by European and Arabic...
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    rotation on its axis, 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds (one sidereal day). The synchronization of rotation and orbital period means that, for an observer...
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    wavelengths, such as weather and spy satellites, and for other remote-sensing satellites, such as those carrying ocean and atmospheric remote-sensing instruments...
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    by photographs of the Earth as a globe "Apollo 17 Day 1: Transposition, Docking and Extraction". NASA. 2022. Retrieved October 1, 2023. By measurement...
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  • in astronomy and orbital mechanics. A real orbit and its elements change over time due to gravitational perturbations by other objects and the effects...
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    In astronomy and spaceflight, a lunar orbit (also known as a selenocentric orbit) is an orbit of an object around Earth's Moon. In general these orbits...
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    bodies and the centrifugal force balance each other. This can make Lagrange points an excellent location for satellites, as orbit corrections, and hence...
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  • time, the epoch. Using a suitable prediction formula, the state (position and velocity) at any point in the past or future can be estimated to some accuracy...
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    then performed the transposition, docking, and extraction maneuver, separating the CSM from the S-IVB stage, turning around, and docking its nose to the...
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  • parameter μ of a celestial body is the product of the gravitational constant G and the total mass M of the bodies. For two bodies, the parameter may be expressed...
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