An apogee kick motor (AKM) is a rocket motor that is regularly employed on artificial satellites to provide the final impulse to change the trajectory...

They are used almost exclusively as an upper stage, often as an apogee kick motor. The number designations refer to the approximate diameter of the...

to the use of engine and motor in these names, all use liquid propellant. An apogee kick motor (AKM) or apogee boost motor (ABM) such as the Waxwing...

Mohammad, a common compound male given name in Bangladesh. Apogee kick motor, a rocket motor that is regularly employed on artificial satellites This disambiguation...

eliminates the need for the spacecraft to include a liquid apogee engine or an apogee kick motor. Yuanzheng has a thrust of 6.5 kN (1,500 lbf) with a specific...

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would maneuver to several satellites, dock at the target satellite's apogee kick motor, remove a small part of the target spacecraft's thermal protection...

geosynchronous orbit due to an electronics failure. Seconds after the apogee kick motor for circularizing the orbit was fired, the spacecraft fell silent...

Delta E was the second stage, with a Star 37D (Burner 2) third stage/apogee kick motor. There were 12 successful Delta M launches from 1968 until 1971. The...

stage was added to the IUS design which could be used either as an apogee kick motor for inserting payloads directly into geostationary orbit or to increase...

Retrieved February 26, 2014. Harwell, William D. (May 1, 1987). "AKM (Apogee Kick Motor) Capture Device (ACD)". The 21st Aerospace Mechanisms Symposium. Fries...

The FG-36 (AKA Fengyun 2 AKM) was a Chinese spin stabilized apogee kick motor burning HTPB-based composite propellant. It was developed by China Hexi...

orbit. After transiting to a near geosynchronous apogee, the satellite employed an apogee kick motor to raise the perigee of the orbit and reduce inclination...

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Liquid Apogee Engine – A liquid-propellant rocket used as the primary propulsion device on geostationary orbit satellites. Apogee kick motor – A solid-fuel...

operational communications satellite, dock at the target satellite's apogee-kick motor, remove a small part of the target spacecraft's thermal protection...

deployed on the second flight day, and a third-stage Minuteman solid apogee kick motor propelled it into a geosynchronous orbit. Dunbar retrieved the LDEF...

now manufactured by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems with an apogee kick motor to place a communications satellite into geostationary orbit, a thruster...

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by ASI's Italian Research Interim Stage (IRIS). The spacecraft's apogee kick motor later circularized LAGEOS 2 orbit at its operational altitude of 5...

higher orbits used the Thiokol Star-37D or Star-37E upper stage as an apogee kick motor. Delta 2000 launches occurred from Space Launch Complex 2W at Vandenberg...

The HS-376 was the size of a small bus, with solar arrays and an apogee kick motor. It was not designed to be retrieved, so there was nothing for the...

operational communications satellite, dock at the target satellite's apogee kick motor, remove a small part of the target spacecraft's thermal protection...

after the other two had successfully fired. After the third stage, an apogee kick motor would be used to put a satellite into a synchronous orbit. ERNO would...

Waxwing was a British solid rocket motor used for apogee kick as the 3rd (upper) stage of the Black Arrow satellite launch vehicles. It was also known...

transfer orbit (270 x 36058 km) due to a failure of the Thiokol Star 17A apogee kick motor. Skynet 1 series satellites had an orbit mass of 122 kg (269 lb),...

cataloged as an apogee kick motor (AKM) by the US Space Force's 18th Space Defense Squadron (SDS), however many doubt that a discarded motor would maintain...

FG-15 (AKA DFH-2 AKM and SpaB-170) was a Chinese spin stabilized apogee kick motor burning HTPB-based composite propellant. It was developed by China...

were of high quality. However, when parts such as the satellite's apogee kick motor wore down, information on how to improve them was very difficult to...

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