Dr Schweiger announced to the Orbiter Community that Orbiter is being published under open source MIT license. Orbiter was developed by Martin Schweiger...
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Spacecraft (redirect from Orbiter)
trajectory on July 19, 1963. The first reusable orbital spaceplane was the Space Shuttle orbiter. The first orbiter to fly in space, the Space Shuttle Columbia...
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The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: Maṅgala 'Mars', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle'), was a space probe orbiting Mars since...
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Space Shuttle (redirect from Orbiter External Airlock)
of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights (STS-5) beginning in 1982. Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles...
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The Space Shuttle orbiter is the spaceplane component of the Space Shuttle, a partially reusable orbital spacecraft system that was part of the discontinued...
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In celestial mechanics, an orbit (also known as orbital revolution) is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star...
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Look up orbital in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orbital may refer to: Atomic orbital Molecular orbital Hybrid orbital Orbit Earth orbit Orbit (anatomy)...
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Columbia was the first space-rated orbiter constructed, following the atmospheric test vehicle Enterprise. The orbiter contained the crew compartment, where...
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Look up orbiter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An orbiter is a type of a spacecraft. Orbiter may also refer to: Space Shuttle orbiter, the main component...
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model of the Orbiter 3 constructed with a spare Orbiter 2 envelope was exhibited at Gasometer Oberhausen from 2004 to 2006. The Breitling Orbiter 3 was a Cameron...
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The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998, to study the Martian...
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by LRO...
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inside Orbiter 9. Helena tells Hugo she has one condition if she and Alex are to return to Orbiter 9. Some years later, a girl exits Orbiter 9 in the...
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moving target. If a target is not detected, the Orbiter 1K can return to base and land for reuse. The Orbiter 1K can fly for 2–3 hours carrying an electro-optical/infrared...
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environment. Solar Orbiter has inherited technology from previous missions, such as the solar arrays from the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO). The...
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Space Shuttle Columbia (category Space Shuttle orbiters)
Duration Orbiter pallet. The pallet was used by the orbiter in thirteen of the pallet's fourteen flights, which aided lengthy stays in orbit for scientific...
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Space Shuttle Challenger (redirect from Shuttle Orbiter Challenger)
orbiter, with only a mockup crew module installed and thermal insulation placed on its forward fuselage. NASA planned to refit the prototype orbiter Enterprise...
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The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA's Lunar Orbiter program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was...
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Chandrayaan-2 (category Satellites orbiting the Moon)
launch window in 2013, unused Chandrayaan-2 orbiter hardware was repurposed to be used for the Mars Orbiter Mission. Chandrayaan-2 launch had been scheduled...
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Chandrayaan programme (section Orbiters)
would consist of an orbiter that would conduct mineralogical and chemical mapping of the surface. During the assembly of the orbiter only mission, then...
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Orbiter Mission in 2013. Astrodynamics Earth's orbit Geocentric orbit Heliocentrism List of artificial objects in heliocentric orbit List of orbits Low-energy...
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The Uranus Orbiter and Probe is an orbiter mission concept to study Uranus and its moons. The orbiter would also deploy an atmospheric probe to characterize...
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The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States in 1966 and 1967. Intended to help select...
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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft designed to search for the existence of water on Mars and provide support for missions to Mars,...
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Mars Lander Mission (redirect from Mars Orbiter Mission 2)
whether the best path would be to conduct an orbiter/lander/rover mission or to opt for only an orbiter with more sophisticated instruments than those...
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The Venus Orbiter Mission, unofficially known as Shukrayaan (Sanskrit: Śukra 'Venus', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle'), is a planned Indian Space Research Organisation...
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Neptune Odyssey (redirect from Neptune Orbiter)
Odyssey is an orbiter mission concept to study Neptune and its moons, particularly Triton. The orbiter would enter into a retrograde orbit of Neptune to...
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Space Shuttle Discovery (category Space Shuttle orbiters)
Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space...
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Houston Astros Orbit, a transit-oriented development proposed around the future Innisfil GO Station. Orbital (disambiguation) Orbiter (disambiguation)...
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