is a list of types of gravitational orbit classified by various characteristics. The following is a list of types of orbits: Galactocentric orbit: An orbit...

the orbits of Mars and Jupiter Ceres, a dwarf planet Pallas Vesta Hygiea Asteroids number in the hundreds of thousands. For longer lists, see list of exceptional...

also follows an elliptic orbit. Examples of elliptic orbits include Hohmann transfer orbits, Molniya orbits, and tundra orbits. Under standard assumptions...

(that is, from the approximate direction of the star Polaris) the Moon orbits Earth anticlockwise and Earth orbits the Sun anticlockwise, and the Moon and...

only a few orbital trajectories possible for indefinite frozen orbits. These would be useful for long-term stays in LLO. Most lunar low orbits below 100...

A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less...

graveyard orbit, also called a junk orbit or disposal orbit, is an orbit that lies away from common operational orbits. One significant graveyard orbit is a...

Idealised orbits meeting these rules are known as Kepler orbits. Isaac Newton demonstrated that Kepler's laws were derivable from his theory of gravitation...

whole number of orbits per day. Assuming a circular orbit, this comes down to between 7 and 16 orbits per day, as doing less than 7 orbits would require...

Earth orbit, where geostationary satellites are and where after their end of use they are parked in similar orbits, so-called graveyard orbits. Atmospheric...

system. Continuous "families" of both northern and southern halo orbits exist at each Lagrange point. Because halo orbits tend to be unstable, station-keeping...

values, Mars' orbital altitude is equal to 17039 km. Spaceflight portal List of orbits List of satellites in geosynchronous orbit Orbital station-keeping...

probes and pieces of debris. The moons of planets in the Solar System, by contrast, are not in heliocentric orbits, as they orbit their respective planet...

around the Sun—an orbital maneuver is called a deep-space maneuver (DSM).[not verified in body] Transfer orbits are usually elliptical orbits that allow spacecraft...

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...

Geosynchronous Orbit NASA – Planetary Orbits Science Presse data on Geosynchronous Orbits (including historical data and launch statistics) Orbital Mechanics...

astronautics, the Hohmann transfer orbit (/ˈhoʊmən/) is an orbital maneuver used to transfer a spacecraft between two orbits of different altitudes around a...

100-minute orbit. List of orbits Molniya orbit Tundra orbit Vandenberg Air Force Base, a major United States launch location for polar orbits "ESA - Types of Orbits"...

Canada. While satellites in Molniya orbits require considerably less launch energy than those in geostationary orbits (especially launching from high latitudes)...

(near-circular orbits) are very close to their star and are tidally-locked to the star. All eight planets in the Solar System have near-circular orbits. The exoplanets...

i} is the orbital inclination, and T {\displaystyle T} is the orbital period. List of orbits Orbital inclination Non-inclined orbit Basics of the Geostationary...

the orbital speed of an astronomical body or object (e.g. planet, moon, artificial satellite, spacecraft, or star) is the speed at which it orbits around...

Halo orbits also include components perpendicular to the plane, but they are periodic, while Lissajous orbits are usually not. In practice, any orbits around...

satellites. Captured bodies on distant orbits vary widely in their inclinations, while captured bodies in relatively close orbits tend to have low inclinations...

mass. In the special case of perfectly circular orbits, the semimajor axis a is equal to the radius of the orbit, and the orbital velocity is constant and...

four families of NRHO orbits associated with the L1 and L2 points, two each in the northern and southern directions. The low perilune orbits are nearly polar...

two-body, Newtonian orbits are always conic sections, so the Keplerian elements define an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola. Real orbits have perturbations...

a network of landers and smaller satellites in lower Martian orbits back to earth. Geostationary orbit Areosynchronous orbit List of orbits Lay, N.; C...

reach Earth orbit. Spaceflight portal Levels of spaceflight: Suborbital, orbital, interplanetary, interstellar and intergalatic List of orbits O'Leary, Beth...

areosynchronous orbits (ASO) are the synchronous orbits for artificial satellites around the planet Mars. They are the martian equivalent of the geosynchronous...