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  • Thumbnail for Ion thruster
    a chemical engine to raise perigee to 16,330 km (10,150 mi) and proceeded to geosynchronous orbit using electric propulsion. China's Tiangong space station...
    85 KB (8,769 words) - 05:41, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chandrayaan-3
    first perigee crossing on 22 November 2023 at an altitude of about 154,000 km. The propulsion module is currently orbiting Earth with a perigee and apogee...
    90 KB (7,015 words) - 17:28, 11 September 2024
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    Apsis (redirect from Perigee)
    Moon's two apsides are the farthest point, apogee, and the nearest point, perigee, of its orbit around the host Earth. Earth's two apsides are the farthest...
    42 KB (3,898 words) - 20:56, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spacecraft propulsion
    Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial satellites. In-space propulsion exclusively deals with propulsion systems...
    90 KB (8,202 words) - 06:14, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Free-return trajectory
    the Moon) causes the spacecraft to return to the primary body without propulsion (hence the term free). Many free-return trajectories are designed to intersect...
    13 KB (1,872 words) - 03:39, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geostationary transfer orbit
    orbit is a highly elliptical type of geocentric orbit, usually with a perigee as low as low Earth orbit (LEO) and an apogee as high as geostationary...
    13 KB (1,801 words) - 19:57, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orbital spaceflight
    but the perigee is too low. Orbital spaceflight from Earth has only been achieved by launch vehicles that use rocket engines for propulsion. To reach...
    13 KB (1,399 words) - 14:39, 12 September 2024
  • needed merely to climb to the corresponding altitude. Spacecraft with a perigee below about 2,000 km (1,200 mi) are subject to drag from the Earth's atmosphere...
    17 KB (1,997 words) - 14:43, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for SMART-1
    end of mission performance demonstrated by the propulsion system is stated above. After its last perigee on 2 November, on 11 November 2004 it passed through...
    32 KB (3,335 words) - 03:07, 27 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hohmann transfer orbit
    Hohmann transfer orbit (category Spacecraft propulsion)
    spacecraft reaches apogee, a second engine firing adds energy to raise the perigee, putting the spacecraft in the larger circular orbit. Due to the reversibility...
    27 KB (3,632 words) - 19:00, 12 September 2024
  • impact. 2006 RH120 made four Earth orbits of about three months each with perigee (closest approach to Earth) on 11 September 2006, 3 January 2007, 25 March...
    23 KB (1,784 words) - 20:40, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kármán line
    full revolution without propulsion is approximately 150 km (93 miles), whereas an object can maintain an elliptic orbit with perigee as low as about 90 km...
    25 KB (2,800 words) - 17:06, 4 August 2024
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    Delta-v budget (category Spacecraft propulsion)
    from LEO—the delta-v required is the orbital maneuvering burn to lower perigee into the atmosphere, atmospheric drag takes care of the rest. Delta-v needed...
    25 KB (2,727 words) - 05:46, 23 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Non-rocket spacelaunch
    much of the speed and altitude needed to achieve orbit is provided by a propulsion technique that is not subject to the limits of the rocket equation. Although...
    49 KB (5,502 words) - 04:57, 23 August 2024
  • stations and orbital launch vehicles; deep-space communication; in-space propulsion; and a wide variety of other technologies including support infrastructure...
    7 KB (924 words) - 02:14, 1 September 2024
  • has a propulsion system has a correcting device has some form of memory The operator gives the mechanism a goal and "starts" it During propulsion, the...
    8 KB (1,049 words) - 07:25, 28 July 2024
  • transatmospheric orbit (TAO) is an orbit around a celestial body in which the perigee of the orbit intersects with the defined atmosphere. Transatmospheric Earth...
    3 KB (358 words) - 16:10, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orbit of the Moon
    Moon is closest to Earth (perigee). The largest possible apparent diameter of the Moon is the same 12% larger (as perigee versus apogee distances) than...
    37 KB (4,642 words) - 22:56, 1 September 2024
  • Space gun (category Spacecraft propulsion)
    design involves a total of 0.6 km/s (1,300 mph) of rocket burn to raise perigee well above the atmosphere when entering an 8 km/s (18,000 mph) low Earth...
    14 KB (1,743 words) - 03:27, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Comparison of orbital launch systems
    Perigee". perigee.space. Retrieved 2023-12-18. Blue Whale 1 Sea Launch Animation. Retrieved 2024-03-28 – via YouTube. "Mission ― Perigee". perigee.space...
    139 KB (4,243 words) - 07:27, 15 September 2024
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