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    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...
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    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...
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    follows an elliptic orbit. Examples of elliptic orbits include Hohmann transfer orbits, Molniya orbits, and tundra orbits. Under standard assumptions, no...
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    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...
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    Idealised orbits meeting these rules are known as Kepler orbits. Isaac Newton demonstrated that Kepler's laws were derivable from his theory of gravitation...
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    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...
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    (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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Canada. While satellites in Molniya orbits require considerably less launch energy than those in geostationary orbits (especially launching from high latitudes)...
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    Earth orbit, where geostationary satellites are and where after their end of use they are parked in similar orbits, so-called graveyard orbits. Atmospheric...
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    system. Continuous "families" of both northern and southern halo orbits exist at each Lagrange point. Because halo orbits tend to be unstable, station-keeping...
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    Geosynchronous Orbit NASA – Planetary Orbits Science Presse data on Geosynchronous Orbits (including historical data and launch statistics) Orbital Mechanics...
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    values, Mars' orbital altitude is equal to 17039 km. Spaceflight portal List of orbits List of satellites in geosynchronous orbit Orbital station-keeping...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    astronautics, the Hohmann transfer orbit (/ˈhoʊmən/) is an orbital maneuver used to transfer a spacecraft between two orbits of different altitudes around a...
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  • 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...
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    satellites. Captured bodies on distant orbits vary widely in their inclinations, while captured bodies in relatively close orbits tend to have low inclinations...
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  • 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"...
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    (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...
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    Halo orbits also include components perpendicular to the plane, but they are periodic, while Lissajous orbits are usually not. In practice, any orbits around...
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    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...
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  • two-body, Newtonian orbits are always conic sections, so the Keplerian elements define an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola. Real orbits have perturbations...
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  • a network of landers and smaller satellites in lower Martian orbits back to earth. Geostationary orbit Areosynchronous orbit List of orbits Lay, N.; C...
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  • 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...
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    the longer term, asteroids can transfer between horseshoe orbits and quasi-satellite orbits. Quasi-satellites aren't gravitationally bound to their planet...
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  • areosynchronous orbits (ASO) are the synchronous orbits for artificial satellites around the planet Mars. They are the martian equivalent of the geosynchronous...
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    r − r S {\displaystyle v={\sqrt {\frac {GM}{r-r_{S}}}}} Elliptic orbit List of orbits Two-body problem Lissauer, Jack J.; de Pater, Imke (2019). Fundamental...
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