astrodynamics, orbital station-keeping is keeping a spacecraft at a fixed distance from another spacecraft or celestial body. It requires a series of orbital maneuvers...

Station keeping may refer to: Orbital station-keeping, maneuvers used to keep a spacecraft in an assigned orbit Nautical stationkeeping, maintaining a...

In orbital mechanics, a libration point orbit (LPO) is a quasiperiodic orbit around a Lagrange point. Libration is a form of orbital motion exhibited...

Space stations typically require a regular altitude boost to counteract orbital decay (see also orbital station-keeping). Uncontrolled orbital decay brought...

is divided into two sections: the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) assembled by Roscosmos, and the US Orbital Segment (USOS), assembled by NASA, JAXA, ESA...

depends on the Russian Orbital Segment for essential flight control, orbital station-keeping and life support systems. The US Orbital Segment consists of...

orbit with a Δv of 730 m/s and a half a day of transit time. Orbital station-keeping would require less than 10 m/s of Δv per year, and the orbital inclination...

while in low Earth orbit, between 340 and 450 km (210 and 280 mi) above the surface. It is China's first long-term space station, part of the Tiangong...

point orbits must use their propulsion systems to perform orbital station-keeping. Although they are not perfectly stable, a modest effort of station keeping...

A thruster is a spacecraft propulsion device used for orbital station-keeping, attitude control, or long-duration, low-thrust acceleration, often as part...

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

the orbital velocities and position vectors of the two spacecraft, allowing them to remain at a constant distance through orbital station-keeping. Rendezvous...

thrusters (often monopropellant rockets) or resistojet rockets for orbital station-keeping, while a few use momentum wheels for attitude control. Russian...

adjust the orbit for events of very low probability; it would soon use up the propellant the satellite carries for orbital station-keeping.) Other countries...

Orbit in order to delay its atmospheric re-entry due to orbital decay. Orbital station-keeping International Space Station § Orbit Specific orbital energy...

precise match of the orbital velocities of the two spacecraft, allowing them to remain at a constant distance through orbital station-keeping. Rendezvous is...

23,463 km), any satellites in the orbit will suffer increased orbital station keeping costs due to unwanted orbital resonance effects. Mars's gravity...

and shortly switched over all traffic from DFS Kopernikus-3. The orbital station-keeping manoeuvres of the satellites were conducted by the Flight Dynamics...

A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains in orbit and hosts humans for extended periods of time. It therefore is an artificial...

Comparison of orbital launchers families. For the list of predominantly solid-fueled orbital launch systems, see: Comparison of solid-fueled orbital launch systems...

communications satellite into geostationary orbit, a thruster to provide the satellite with orbital station-keeping for a 15-year mission, and solar arrays...

suitable maneuver directions for transfer trajectory design and orbital station-keeping. An eigenvalue ⁠ λ {\displaystyle \lambda } ⁠ of a matrix ⁠ M {\displaystyle...

short descriptions of redirect targets Orbital station-keeping – Maneuvers made to maintain a particular orbit Project Earth (TV series) – television...

thrusters (often monopropellant rockets) or resistojet rockets for orbital station-keeping and some use momentum wheels for attitude control. Soviet bloc...

an orbital weapon called the Sun gun, an orbital mirror that would have been used to focus and weaponize beams of sunlight. Development of orbital weaponry...

000 m) in a quasi-geostationary position to deliver persistent orbital station keeping as a surveillance aircraft platform, telecommunications relay,...

utilized for both orbital station-keeping and attitude control, as well as providing limited propellant and thrust to use for orbital maneuvers to better...

performing extravehicular activity (EVA), space rendezvous and orbital station-keeping. Knowing that EVA (or spacewalk) was a possibility, McDivitt pressed...

be controlled by a crewman in the Shuttle Orbiter vehicle. Mission Extension Vehicle Orbital station-keeping New Scientist. Reed Business Information....

A geosynchronous orbit (sometimes abbreviated GSO) is an Earth-centered orbit with an orbital period that matches Earth's rotation on its axis, 23 hours...