Look up orbital in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orbital may refer to: Atomic orbital Molecular orbital Hybrid orbital Orbit Earth orbit Orbit (anatomy)...

mechanics, an orbit is the curved trajectory of an object under the influence of an attracting force. Alternatively, it is known as an orbital revolution...

{\displaystyle m_{s}} . The simple names s orbital, p orbital, d orbital, and f orbital refer to orbitals with angular momentum quantum number ℓ = 0, 1, 2...

reciprocal is the orbital frequency, a kind of revolution frequency, in units of hertz. According to Kepler's Third Law, the orbital period T of two point...

listeners believe that they had bought a mis-pressed album (Orbital 1 packaged as Orbital 2). The album reached No. 28 on the UK albums chart, staying...

astrodynamics, the orbital eccentricity of an astronomical object is a dimensionless parameter that determines the amount by which its orbit around another...

opposes Reflect Orbital's proposed orbital illumination system". DarkSky International. Retrieved 10 February 2026. "Reflect Orbital Seeks Collaboration...

(16 November 2023). "Orbital by Samantha Harvey review – the astronaut's view". The Guardian. "Orbital". Grove Atlantic. "'Orbital' by Samantha Harvey...

center of the orbit is relatively close to the center of the Sun (relative to the size of the orbit). As seen from Earth, the planet's orbital prograde motion...

following the direction of Earth's rotation. An object in such an orbit has an orbital period equal to Earth's rotational period, one sidereal day, and...

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

completes an orbit every 11.86 years. This is approximately two-fifths the orbital period of Saturn, forming a near orbital resonance. The orbital plane of...

Earth's radius). Objects in orbits that pass through this zone, even if they have an apogee further out or are sub-orbital, are carefully tracked since...

An electron orbital may refer to: An atomic orbital, describing the behaviour of an electron in an atom A molecular orbital, describing the behaviour...

Orbital inclination measures the tilt of an object's orbit around a celestial body. It is expressed as the angle between a reference plane and the orbital...

Orbital ATK Inc. was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense industry company. It was formed in February 9, 2015, from the merger of Orbital Sciences...

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...

Orbital elements are the parameters required to uniquely identify a specific orbit. In celestial mechanics these elements are considered in two-body systems...

surrounding the globe in the orbit. There is a supraorbital foramen, an infraorbital foramen, a superior orbital fissure, an inferior orbital fissure and the optic...

considered a sub-orbital spaceflight. Some sub-orbital flights have been undertaken to test spacecraft and launch vehicles later intended for orbital spaceflight...

needed][relevant?] However, because the orbital velocity of the Moon around Earth (1 km/s) is small compared to the orbital velocity of Earth about the Sun (30 km/s)...

In chemistry, orbital hybridisation (or hybridization) is the concept of mixing atomic orbitals to form new hybrid orbitals (with different energies,...

planets, moons, and comets. Orbital mechanics focuses on spacecraft trajectories, including orbital maneuvers, orbital plane changes, and interplanetary...

second-stage in an elliptical geocentric orbit with a low-perigee, thus ensuring rapid orbital decay and avoiding long-term orbital debris from spent rocket bodies...

2015-03-07. "FCC Enters Orbital Debris Debate". Space.com. Archived from the original on March 8, 2005. "US Government Orbital Debris Standard Practices"...

mechanics, orbital precession may refer to: Apsidal precession, where the major axis of an elliptical orbit cycles its orientation within its orbital plane...

Orbital plate may refer to: Orbital part of frontal bone Orbital lamina of ethmoid bone This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...

An orbital spaceflight (or orbital flight) is a spaceflight in which a spacecraft is placed on a trajectory where it could remain in space for at least...

except single-stage-to-orbit vehicles cannot get into space on their own, and require a launch vehicle (carrier rocket). On a sub-orbital spaceflight, a space...

It is a highly elliptical orbit with an inclination of 63.4 degrees, an argument of perigee of 270 degrees, and an orbital period of about half a sidereal...

mechanics, orbital resonance occurs when orbiting bodies exert regular, periodic gravitational influence on each other, usually because their orbital periods...

less than a third of its mass. Saturn orbits the Sun at a distance of 9.59 AU (1,434 million km), with an orbital period of 29.45 years. Saturn's interior...

{\displaystyle \alpha } controlling the width of the orbital. The expression for a Cartesian Gaussian-type orbital, with the appropriate normalization coefficient...

strength needed to stretch from GEO to the surface. Orbital rings use a different mechanism. In the orbital ring version, a kinetic ring is moving around the...

surface. Even if an orbit remains Sun-synchronous, however, other orbital parameters such as argument of periapsis and the orbital eccentricity evolve...

detectable gravitational waves. Orbital decay is caused by one or more mechanisms which absorb energy from the orbital motion, such as fluid friction,...

angular orbital velocity equals its angular rotational velocity so that the Sun's apparent motion ceases; closer to perihelion, Mercury's angular orbital velocity...

liquids, it has no well-defined solid surface. Neptune orbits the Sun once every 164.8 years at an orbital distance of 30.1 astronomical units (4.5 billion...

orbital plane of a revolving body is the geometric plane in which its orbit lies. Three non-collinear points in space suffice to determine an orbital...

region. The terms atomic orbital and molecular orbital were introduced by Robert S. Mulliken in 1932 to mean one-electron orbital wave functions. At an elementary...

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

Orbital velocity may refer to the following: The orbital angular velocity The orbital speed of a revolving body in a gravitational field. The velocity...

around the future Innisfil GO Station Orbit (bus system), Huntsville, Alabama Orbital (disambiguation) Orbiter (disambiguation) Orbite Technologies Orbitz...

The M25 or London Orbital Motorway is a major ring road encircling most of Greater London. The 117-mile-long (188 km) motorway is one of the most important...

that make most unstable, and leave only a few orbital trajectories possible for indefinite frozen orbits. These would be useful for long-term stays in...

variables can affect the success of an orbital weld. These include using the proper weld program in the orbital welding power supply or controller to match...

Orbital Service Station, is a proposed Russian orbital space station scheduled to begin construction in 2028. Initially an evolution of the Orbital Piloted...

to drag from the Earth's atmosphere, which decreases the orbital altitude. The rate of orbital decay depends on the satellite's cross-sectional area and...

are three kinds of orbital emphysema including palpebral emphysema, true orbital emphysema, and orbitopalpebral emphysema. Orbital emphysema on its own...

and V2R = GM, where R = radius of orbit in metres, T = orbital period in seconds, V = orbital speed in m/s, G = gravitational constant ≈ 6.673×10−11 Nm2/kg2...

Orbital Reef is a low Earth orbit (LEO) space station under development. It is designed by Blue Origin and Sierra Space for commercial space activities...

molecular orbital is best characterized by that type. This method of quantifying orbital contribution as a linear combination of atomic orbitals is used...

Orbital (also known as Orbital 2 or the Brown Album) is the second studio album by English electronic music duo Orbital, released on 24 May 1993 by Internal...

In quantum mechanics, orbital magnetization, Morb, refers to the magnetization induced by orbital motion of charged particles, usually electrons in solids...

during the orbital lifetime of LEO satellites. Orbital decay is caused by atmospheric drag and to keep the satellite in the correct orbit the platform...

axis the orbital period does not depend on the eccentricity (See also: Kepler's third law). Under standard assumptions, the specific orbital energy (...

part of the lateral orbital wall. The orbital process is a thick, strong plate, projecting backward and medialward from the orbital margin. Its antero-medial...

An orbital node is either of the two points where an orbiting object intersects a plane of reference inclined with respect to the orbital plane. A non-inclined...

orbital arc when conducting a site survey to determine the optimal location for the earth station. Best practice methods for factoring in the orbital...

orbit to provide telecommunications services. Near-polar orbiting satellites commonly choose a sun-synchronous orbit, where each successive orbital pass...

complete one orbit through the Milky Way (a galactic year), so it is thought to have completed 20–25 orbits during the lifetime of the Sun. The orbital speed...

Orbital Corporation Limited (ASX: OEC), formerly Orbital Engine Corporation Limited pioneered by Ralph Sarich, is an Australian company based in Balcatta...

of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights (STS-5) beginning in 1982. Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles...

In Orbit may refer to: In Orbit (September album) In Orbit (Clark Terry album) In Orbit, an album by The Stomachmouths In Orbit, an album by Sun Araw In...

Orbital Sciences Corporation (commonly referred to as Orbital) was an American company specializing in the design, manufacture, and launch of small- and...

Halo orbit A halo orbit is a periodic, non-planar orbit associated with one of the L1, L2 or L3 Lagrange points in the three-body problem of orbital mechanics...

the complicated movement of drones, gravity, and orbital vehicles aboard the space station. The Orbital Children explores interactions with artificial intelligence...

orbit (such as its orbital precession) over millions of years so that a collision could happen. However, Pluto is also protected by its 2:3 orbital resonance...

increasing the object's orbital period. The closer to Earth the object is, the greater this effect is. At the L1 point, the object's orbital period becomes exactly...

transform is the orbital integral that results by taking G to be the Euclidean isometry group and K the isotropy group of a hyperplane. Orbital integrals are...

allowing Orbital to use Planet's PlanetScope imagery and high resolution SkySat imagery of Earth. In May 2019, the company released Orbital Insight GO...

inferior or orbital surface of the frontal lobe is concave, and rests on the orbital plate of the frontal bone. It is divided into four orbital gyri by a...

Orbit Orbit is the ninth studio album by Italian rapper Caparezza. Anticipated by the single "Io son il viaggio", it was released on 31 October 2025 by...

or a kinetic orbital strike is the hypothetical act of attacking a planetary surface with an inert kinetic projectile from orbit (orbital bombardment)...

Orbital fissure may refer to: Inferior orbital fissure Superior orbital fissure This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Orbital...

trajectory In orbital mechanics, a Lissajous orbit (pronounced [li.sa.ʒu]), named after Jules Antoine Lissajous, is a quasi-periodic orbital trajectory that...

In chemistry, frontier molecular orbital theory is an application of molecular orbital theory describing HOMO–LUMO interactions. In 1952, Kenichi Fukui...

molecular orbital diagram, or MO diagram, is a qualitative descriptive tool explaining chemical bonding in molecules in terms of molecular orbital theory...

synchronous orbit has a period equal to the rotational period of the body which contains the barycenter of the orbit. One particular supersynchronous orbital regime...

In spaceflight, an orbital maneuver (otherwise known as a burn) is the use of propulsion systems to change the orbit of a spacecraft. For spacecraft far...

mean orbital radius, along a tadpole orbit in 790 days (288 times its orbital period around Saturn, the same as Dione's). A pair of co-orbital exoplanets...

regardless of its orbital parameters. In the Solar System, this mass is generally less than the mass required for a body to clear its orbit; thus, some objects...

{v^{2}}{r}}\,={\omega ^{2}}{r}} where: v {\displaystyle v\,} is the orbital velocity of the orbiting body, r {\displaystyle r\,} is radius of the circle ω   {\displaystyle...

Orbital foramen may refer to: Infraorbital foramen Zygomatico-orbital foramina This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Orbital...

across an orbit; it also refers simply to the extreme range of an object orbiting a host body (see top figure; see third figure). In orbital mechanics...

of the Orbiter Mars Climate Orbiter began the planned orbital insertion maneuver on September 23, 1999, at 09:00:46 UTC. Mars Climate Orbiter went out...

modified in 1994 by Orbital Sciences (now part of Northrop Grumman) to serve as the mother ship for the Pegasus, an air-launched orbital rocket. As of June...

Orbital part may refer to: Orbital part of frontal bone Orbital part of inferior frontal gyrus This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...

21–22. Observation and analysis of the orbital dynamics of Kuiper Belt objects constrain the possible orbital parameters of a Planet Nine, and at the...

cost to send a spacecraft to such orbits is very high due to their high orbital radius. A GTO is an intermediary orbit used to make this process more efficient...

orbital overlap is that, the greater the overlap between orbitals, the greater the bond strength. Linus Pauling explained the importance of orbital overlap...

Called Love" by The Darkness. In June 2009, Orbital released a two CD greatest hits compilation Orbital 20, which included a number of new remixes, including...

families based on their orbital characteristics. Some asteroids have natural satellites that orbit them, that is, asteroids that orbit larger asteroids. Mercury-crossing...

An orbital pole is either point at the ends of the orbital normal, an imaginary line segment that runs through a focus of an orbit (of a revolving body...

horseshoe orbit of (419624) 2010 SO16 around the Earth-Sun system over 900 years In celestial mechanics, a horseshoe orbit is a type of co-orbital motion...

An orbital vehicle is a spacecraft which attains orbit. Orbit Vehicle, Orbital Vehicle, Orbiter Vehicle, or Orbiting Vehicle may also refer to: A vehicle...

selected by Orbital, released with the April 2002 issue of Mixmag.) (2002) UK Back to Mine (DJ Mix album) (2002) Tracks not released on an Orbital release...

cavity to the face and scalp. Orbital septum supports the orbital contents located posterior to it, especially orbital fat. The septum can be weakened...

In theoretical chemistry, an antibonding orbital is a type of molecular orbital that weakens the chemical bond between two atoms and helps to raise the...

In spaceflight an orbit insertion is an orbital maneuver which adjusts a spacecraft’s trajectory, allowing entry into an orbit around a planet, moon, or...

Orbital Exploration Technologies, Inc., also known as Orbital Exploration or OrbitX, was a Philippine aerospace and space transportation company. OrbitX...

Ocean. Spaceflight portal Air launch to orbit Comparison of orbital launch systems Comparison of retired orbital launch vehicles Launch vehicle system tests...

causing rapid orbital decay if left unchecked. A number of artificial satellites have been placed into transatmospheric Earth orbits, usually due to...

The Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) is the name given to the components of the International Space Station (ISS) constructed in Russia and operated by the...

The Boeing X-37, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), is a reusable robotic spacecraft. It is boosted into space by a launch vehicle, re-enters...

chemistry, the bonding orbital is used in molecular orbital (MO) theory to describe the attractive interactions between the atomic orbitals of two or more atoms...

Orbital cellulitis is inflammation of eye tissues behind the orbital septum. It is most commonly caused by an acute spread of infection into the eye socket...

early 2025. PocketQube – The satellite format Alba Orbital specializes in building "Alba Orbital Limited". gov.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2025. "AlbaPod:...

In orbital mechanics, a distant retrograde orbit (DRO) is a highly stable retrograde orbit around the smaller of two bodies, passing outside the system's...

successful landing of an orbital-class rocket's first stage and the company's SES-10 completed the first reflight of an orbital-class booster in 2017. After...

mission. Tiangong is the first crewed spacecraft to use ion thrusters, for orbital station-keeping, while communications are relayed through the Tianlian...

Three of the most common types are: Lobe orbital piercing Anti helix piercing Helix orbital piercing Some orbital piercings connect three or more piercing...

the Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft, the orbital module has been upgraded to carry its own solar panels and orbital maneuver system, so it is capable of operating...

radius of orbit By this formula, one can find the synchronous orbital radius of a body, given its mass and sidereal rotational period. Orbital speed (how...

}{2a}}\end{aligned}}} where v {\displaystyle v} is the relative orbital speed; r {\displaystyle r} is the orbital distance between the bodies; μ = G ( m 1 + m 2 ) {\displaystyle...

perpendicular to its orbital plane around the Sun, producing seasons. Earth is orbited by one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which orbits Earth at 384...

(340 mi) orbital altitude. These satellites would effectively operate in a third orbital shell, a 550 km (340 mi) orbit, while the higher and lower orbits at...

The orbital Rashba effect refers to the emergence of finite orbital angular momentum (OAM) Bloch states at solid surfaces, driven by the confining electric...

Orbiter, an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle Orbital vehicle (disambiguation) Orbital (disambiguation) Orbit (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...

orbital sunrise is the natural light display observed in space during low orbit from behind Earth's horizon. Orbital sunrises occur when the orbiting...

Hill sphere, its orbital and co-orbital space extend along Earth's orbital path. This space is co-populated by groups of co-orbital Near-Earth Objects...

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

orbital engine is a type of internal combustion engine, invented in 1972 by Ralph Sarich, an engineer from Perth, Australia, which features orbital rather...

orbital on one atom overlap with two lobes of an orbital on another atom, and in which this overlap occurs laterally. Each of these atomic orbitals has...

an inclined orbit. A non-inclined orbit is an orbit coplanar with a plane of reference. The orbital inclination is 0° for prograde orbits, and π (180°)...

elements. In some situations, description of orbital motion can be simplified and approximated by choosing orbital elements that are not osculating. Also,...

Orbit Culture is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Eksjö, formed in 2013. The band includes vocalist and rhythm guitarist Niklas Karlsson, lead...

identified. Ceres is close to a 1:1 mean-motion orbital resonance with Pallas (their proper orbital periods differ by 0.2%), but not close enough to...

The fragment molecular orbital method (FMO) is a computational method that can be used to calculate very large molecular systems with thousands of atoms...

inferior or orbital surface of the frontal lobe is concave, and rests on the orbital plate of the frontal bone. It is divided into four orbital gyri by a...

(MSFC). The Orbital Express program was aimed at developing "a safe and cost-effective approach to autonomously service satellites in orbit". The system...

In orbital mechanics, a frozen orbit is an orbit for an artificial satellite in which perturbations have been minimized by careful selection of the orbital...

where R is the radius of orbit in metres; T is the orbital period in seconds; V is the orbital speed in m/s; G is the gravitational constant, approximately...

corresponding to the timeframes of periodic orbital cycles have been interpreted as evidence of orbital forcing on climate during greenhouse periods...

An orbital propellant depot is a cache of propellant that is placed in orbit around Earth or another body to allow spacecraft or the transfer stage of...

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

molecular orbitals described at absolute zero. The acronyms stand for highest occupied molecular orbital and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital, respectively...

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

and its orbital axis, which is the line perpendicular to its orbital plane; equivalently, it is the angle between its equatorial plane and orbital plane...

Operation Orbital was the code-name for a British military operation to train and support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was launched in 2015 in response...

An orbital blowout fracture is a traumatic deformity of the orbital floor or medial wall that typically results from the impact of a blunt object larger...

square of a planet's orbital period is proportional to the cube of the length of the semi-major axis of its orbit. The elliptical orbits of planets were indicated...

new electron in a 2p orbital; carbon (1s2 2s2 2p2) fills a second 2p orbital; and with nitrogen (1s2 2s2 2p3) all three 2p orbitals become singly occupied...

Orbital (also known as Orbital 1 or the Green Album) is the debut studio album by English electronic music duo Orbital, released on 30 September 1991 by...

In orbital mechanics, a transfer orbit is an intermediate elliptical orbit that is used to move a spacecraft in an orbital maneuver from one circular...

synchronous orbits, an areosynchronous orbit has an orbital period equal in length to the primary's sidereal day. A satellite in areosynchronous orbit does not...

Orbital artery may refer to: Infraorbital artery Supraorbital artery Zygomatico-orbital artery This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...

Wainwright (15 December 1956 – 23 July 2026), known professionally as William Orbit, was an English musician and record producer. With a career spanning four...

Orbital is a Franco-Belgian science fiction comic book series written by Sylvain Runberg, illustrated by Serge Pellé and published by Dupuis in French...

Orbital 20 (stylised as 2Orbital) is a compilation album by electronic music duo Orbital. It contains singles, album tracks and several new remixes. The...

electric and air powered orbital sanders are handheld, while the floor orbital sanders are large machines that roll. The random orbit sanding pattern is produced...

object that is in direct orbit around the Sun, massive enough to be gravitationally rounded, but insufficient to achieve orbital dominance like the eight...

co-orbit analysis Space rendezvous "Orbital Mechanics". Archived from the original on 2013-12-16. Retrieved 2013-12-13. Curtis, Howard D (2014). Orbital...

data centers or orbital AI infrastructure are proposed concepts to build AI data centers in the sun-synchronous orbit or other orbits using space-based...

McNeany". The New Statesman. Retrieved 29 April 2013. "Orbital Education receives the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade - Orbital Education"....

In orbital mechanics a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) is a halo orbit that passes close to the smaller of two bodies and has nearly stable behavior...

heliocentric orbit (also called circumsolar orbit) is an orbit around the Sun. The inner planets are mainly influenced by the Sun's gravity, and orbit points...

Orbital apex syndrome is a collection of cranial nerve deficits associated with a mass lesion near the apex of the orbit of the eye. This syndrome is a...

fractions are advised in treating the local orbital lymphomas. Orbital lymphoma accounts for 55% of malignant orbital tumors in adults. In one study, this was...

the s-orbital is always filled before the p-orbitals. In a hydrogen-like atom, which only has one electron, calculations indicate that the s-orbital and...

A non-bonding orbital, also known as non-bonding molecular orbital (NBMO), is a molecular orbital whose occupation by electrons neither increases nor...

Orbital surface may refer to: Orbitofrontal cortex Orbital surface of body of maxilla This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...

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

A circle route (also circumference, loop, ring route, ring line or orbital line) is a public transport route that follows a path approximating a circle...

period of 17 hours and 14 minutes. This means that in an 84-Earth-year orbital period around the Sun, its poles get around 42 years of continuous sunlight...

orbitals (STOs) or Slater-type functions (STFs) are functions used as atomic orbitals in the linear combination of atomic orbitals molecular orbital method...

longest orbital period of any known object in the Solar System of its size or larger with an orbital period of around 11,400 years. Its orbit is extremely...

binds the orbital fat pad into the orbit. It also binds the palpebra to the bony orbit. Eyeball Lacrimal gland Extraocular muscles Orbital adipose tissue...

syndrome), uveitis, and retinal detachment. Idiopathic orbital inflammatory syndrome, also known as orbital pseudotumor, was first described by Gleason in 1903...

about themselves. In classical mechanics, an object's orbital motion is characterized by its orbital angular momentum (the angular momentum about the axis...

Kepler's first law Circular orbit Elliptic orbit Parabolic trajectory Hyperbolic trajectory Tsiolkovsky rocket equation Orbital speed Escape velocity Celestial...

center of mass, while the orbital angular momentum is the angular momentum about a chosen center of rotation. The Earth has an orbital angular momentum by nature...

subsynchronous orbit is an orbit of a satellite that is nearer the planet than it would be if it were in synchronous orbit, i.e. the orbital period is less...

parabola, or hyperbola, which forms a two-dimensional orbital plane in three-dimensional space. A Kepler orbit can also tend toward a straight line. It considers...

AllMusic. Orbital Period - BUMP OF CHICKEN | Songs, Reviews, Credits Eremenko, Alexey. "Orbital Period - BUMP OF CHICKEN Reviews". AllMusic. "Orbital Period"...

private spaceflight and space tug services, also known as orbital transfer vehicles (OTV). D-Orbit has been operating commercial ION missions since September...

samples to match the predictions of orbital theory in the hopes of improving the accuracy of their data. Orbital tuning is done by adjusting the timescale...

and took the place of the stage during launch. Operations included an orbital workshop, a solar observatory, Earth observation, ten spacewalks, and hundreds...

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...

bond orbital or NBO is a calculated bonding orbital with maximum electron density. The NBOs are one of a sequence of natural localized orbital sets that...

orbit for an orbit around Earth and heliocentric orbit for an orbit around the Sun. As with these other orbits, the apsides of an areocentric orbit are...

Orbital Reflector is a reflective, mylar sculpture by Trevor Paglen launched into space as a temporary satellite. Co-produced by the Nevada Museum of...

orbital flight. NASA's first orbital spaceflight was conducted by John Glenn on February 20, 1962, in the Friendship 7, completing three full orbits before...

Orbit Books is an international publisher that specialises in science fiction and fantasy books. It is a division of Hachette Book Group, owned by Lagardère...

Orbital x-ray or orbital radiography is an x-ray of both left and right eye sockets, to include the Frontal Sinuses and Maxillary Sinuses. The x-ray can...

operative orbital weapons systems, but several nations have deployed orbital surveillance networks to observe other nations or armed forces. Several orbital weaponry...

developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation and later built and launched by Northrop Grumman. Pegasus was the world's first privately developed orbital launch...

are seated for launch and reentry. The orbital module provides additional living space and storage during orbit but is jettisoned before reentry. The service...

approach from sub-orbital to orbital flight, with each developmental step building on its prior work. The company moved into the orbital spaceflight technology...

the Orbital compilation single "Belfast"/"Wasted", and is one half of the design duo Fultano Mauder regularly responsible for artwork on Orbital releases...

A space elevator, also referred to as a space bridge, star ladder, and orbital lift, is a proposed type of planet-to-space transportation system, often...

A high Earth orbit is a geocentric orbit with an apogee farther than that of the geosynchronous orbit, which is 35,786 km (22,236 mi) away from Earth....

large as those faced by orbital spaceflight. A minimal orbital spaceflight requires much higher velocities than a minimal sub-orbital flight, and so it is...

orbital is a ring structure orbiting a star as would a megastructure akin to a bigger Bishop ring. Unlike a ringworld or a Dyson sphere, an orbital does...

BBC News. January 9, 2023. "Virgin Orbit Selected to Bring Orbital Launch Capabilities to Brazil". Virgin Orbit. April 28, 2021. Archived from the original...

compression of structures in the superior orbital fissure or the cavernous sinus.[citation needed] Superior orbital fissure syndrome, also known as Rochon-Duvigneaud's...

orbiter to perform various orbital maneuvers according to requirements of each mission profile: orbital injection after main engine cutoff, orbital corrections...

Earth orbit (MEO) satellites spread between several orbital planes. The actual systems vary, but all use orbital inclinations of >50° and orbital periods...

realization. Space settlements include orbital settlements (also called orbital habitat, orbital stead, orbital city or orbital colony) around the Earth or any...

Cranial capacity and post-orbital constriction index can demonstrate a correlation between increased brain size and reduced post-orbital constriction. For example...

its orbital propulsion competences within man-rated spacecraft as main sub-contractor for the Propulsion Re-boost SubSystem Assemblies. From orbital propulsion...

orbital period of 1.12 years or 409 days. The orbit had an orbital eccentricity of 0.147 and an inclination of 1.24 degrees to the ecliptic. Orbital simulations...

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

orbitals, while the corresponding "nonbonding" orbitals of carbenes are generally treated as a filled σ(out) orbital and an unfilled pure p orbital,...

the O2. Orbital are now developing their next-generation O2-X turbines, with six expected to be deployed in Orkney between 2026 and 2028. Orbital (then...

removal of asteroids from these orbits. When the mean orbital period of an asteroid is an integer fraction of the orbital period of Jupiter, a mean-motion...

orbital (PIO), based on quantum chemical calculations, provides chemists with visualization of a set of semi-localized dominant interacting orbitals....

Orbital inclination change is an orbital maneuver aimed at changing the inclination of an orbiting body's orbit. This maneuver is also known as an orbital...

doi:10.1016/0022-1236(90)90016-E. T. Cazenave & P.-L. Lions (1982). "Orbital stability of standing waves for some nonlinear Schrödinger equations"....

whether its orbital period is equal to or double the 18.85-hour period. Although this hypothesized moon could explain Dysnomia's non-Keplerian orbital motion...

appearance of the orbit. Orbital implants and ocular prostheses are used by the surgeon to restore a more natural appearance. An orbital implant is placed...

station's orbital decay rate. Near the end of its life, there were plans for private interests to purchase Mir, possibly for use as the first orbital television/movie...

Orbital Resonance is a science fiction novel by John Barnes. It is the first of four books comprising the Century Next Door series, followed by Kaleidoscope...

the orbital paths of their products, and Gabbard diagrams (or plots) are now widely used. These studies were used to improve the modeling of orbital evolution...

become the West London Orbital. In March 2018 the Mayor's Transport Strategy was published, which includes a proposal for this orbital connection to Old Oak...

higher than the usual Earth-orbital reentry speed. Apollo 5 (AS-204) was the first uncrewed test flight of the LM in Earth orbit, launched from pad 37 on...

barycentric orbital speed is 1.010 km/s, whilst the Earth's is 0.012 km/s. The total of these speeds gives a geocentric lunar average orbital speed of 1...

mechanics, the orbital plane of reference (or orbital reference plane) is the plane used to define orbital elements (positions). The two main orbital elements...

zygomatic bone and the maxilla, on which it separates the anterior and the orbital surface of the body of the maxilla. It is an attachment for the levator...

the orbit Each maxilla also enters into the formation of two fossae: the infratemporal and pterygopalatine, and two fissures, the inferior orbital and...

35-second burn time. Completion of the orbital insertion placed the orbiter in a highly elliptical polar orbit with a period of approximately 35.5 hours...

structure due to orbital resonances. Over a timescale comparable to the age of the Solar System, Neptune's gravity destabilises the orbits of any objects...

number for an atomic orbital that determines its orbital angular momentum and describes aspects of the angular shape of the orbital. The azimuthal quantum...

inferior orbital fissure diverges laterally from the medial end of the superior orbital fissure. It is situated between the lateral wall of the orbit and the...

In astrodynamics and celestial dynamics, the orbital state vectors (sometimes state vectors) of an orbit are Cartesian vectors of position ( r {\displaystyle...

Earth orbit, which rotates in its orbital plane and whose ends brush the upper Earth atmosphere, with the rotational motion cancelling the orbital motion...

Orbit College is a South African football club based in the North West province. The club earned promotion to the 2025–26 South African Premiership after...

McCready when they booked Orbital to play their "Space Base 4" night at the Art College in Belfast on 12 May 1990. Orbital left a demo tape which included...

The Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM), unofficially known as Shukrayaan (Sanskrit: Śukra 'Venus', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle'), is a planned ISRO mission to study...

electromagnetic interaction between the electron's magnetic dipole, its orbital motion, and the electrostatic field of the positively charged nucleus....

orbits are typical for GPS satellites. Molniya orbit List of orbits Synchronous orbit NASA Technical Standard 8719.14 (draft) (Report). NASA Orbital Debris...

Cometary Orbital Drive is an album by Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., released in 2008 by Bam Balam Records. The Vinyl LP version is...

The station orbits at an altitude of 409 kilometers (221 nmi) and an orbital inclination of 51.65°. Several of the Space Shuttle's 135 orbital flights were...

The Outer Orbital Route is a proposed motorway around the city of Dublin, Ireland; the route has also been known as the Leinster Outer Orbital Route and...

New Space Race, Orbital Sciences Unveils Mini-Shuttle Spaceplane Design, Popular Science, 2010-12-16, accessed 2010-12-18. "Orbital Sciences isn’t the...

to quantized orbital angular momentum. However, in 1927 Ronald G. J. Fraser [de] showed that sodium atoms are isotropic with no orbital angular momentum...

spacecraft was provided by Orbital Sciences Corporation. During its two-year mission, OCO will fly in a near polar orbit which enables the instrument...

spacepower disciplines in which its personnel gain experience: Orbital warfare: Knowledge of orbital maneuver as well as offensive and defensive fires to preserve...

orbits, satellites such as the Trumpet electronics intelligence satellites. The acronym HEO normally is expanded to Highly Eccentric Orbit by orbital...

In 2007, the Lane Cove Tunnel opened, completing the orbital network. The 110 km Sydney orbital consists of several motorways and freeways: Eastern Distributor...

launched India's first private orbital class rocket Vikram-1 into orbit, making India the third country with a private orbital launch capability after the...

from a set of orbital elements. This mean position is refined by Kepler's equation to produce the true position. Define the orbital period (the time...

mutually co-orbital, Janus and Epimetheus. The relatively large Hyperion is locked in an orbital resonance with Titan. The remaining regular moons orbit near...

standard celestial reference system and frame Orbital elements – Parameters that define a specific orbit Planetary coordinate system – Coordinate system...

the addition of two suborbital test stands along with one orbital launch pad named Orbital Launch Mount B. The expansion could also include a new landing...

Ellipses are common in physics, astronomy and engineering. For example, the orbit of each planet in the Solar System is approximately an ellipse with the...

relief of the community. The orbital was originally planned to cut through the town of Cobbitty. The northern end of the orbital was also truncated from Box...

given to these rebels is the Orbital Frame, a mecha that makes extensive use of Metatron-based technology. These Orbital Frames come to shape the destiny...

as "orbital motorways". Examples are the London Orbital (generally known as the M25; 188 km), Sydney Orbital Network (110 km), and Rome Orbital (68 km)...

pseudovector. In two dimensions, the orbital angular acceleration is the rate at which the two-dimensional orbital angular velocity of the particle about...

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

reliability. The Orbital services currently operates as two separate services 40N and 40S in a bid to improve reliability across the service Orbital services...

Orbital stability may refer to: The stability of orbits of planetary bodies Resonance between said orbits The closure of the orbit of a reductive group...

the classical orbital elements or Keplerian elements, a , e , i , Ω , ω , ν {\displaystyle a,e,i,\Omega ,\omega ,\nu } , from the orbital state vectors...

highly elliptical orbit around Earth with a perigee as low as 80 to 90 km (50 to 56 mi), surviving for multiple orbits. Sub-orbital flight and near space...

sweep: 45 degrees Propulsion Total orbital manoeuvring engine thrust: 17,600 kgf (173,000 N; 39,000 lbf) Orbital manoeuvring engine specific impulse:...

The Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (OMV) was a project developed by NASA in the 1980s, aiming to create a reusable, remotely controlled, free-flying vehicle...

of 2014 FE72 aligns with the orbital positioning that is seen in other extreme trans-Neptunian objects. Its average orbital distance is noted as one of...

September 10, 2002. Retrieved February 21, 2011. "Orbital Elements for Trailblazer Satellite". Heavens Above Orbit Tracking. Retrieved February 21, 2011....

direction of the orbiting object and a specified plane of reference. orbital mechanics orbital node One of two points at which the plane of an orbit intersects...

is the donation of electron density from a filled π- or p-orbital to a neighboring σ*-orbital. This phenomenon, a type of resonance, can stabilize the...

Spin-orbital may mean: Spin-orbital, a type of orbital Spin (orbital), a movement of an orbital Spin (physics), a physics term This disambiguation page...

the company disclosed a public construction plan for two sub-orbital launch pads, two orbital launch pads, two landing pads, two test stands, and a large...

assumes an unperturbed elliptical orbit predicts the perihelion and aphelion times with an error of a few hours. Using orbital elements to calculate those distances...

The zygomatico-orbital foramina are two canals in the skull, that allow nerves to pass through. The orifices are seen on the orbital process of the zygomatic...

numerous versions and remixes of "Chime". Orbital themselves have done several. Below is a list of them: Orbital Original version – 1989 "Helium Mix" – 1990...

The proper orbital elements or proper elements of an orbit are constants of motion of an object in space that remain practically unchanged over an astronomically...

engineering. The first uncrewed Orbital Flight Test in December 2019 was deemed a partial failure, leading to a second Orbital Flight Test in May 2022, which...

rocket developed by the OTRAG company (German: Orbital Transport- und Raketen-Aktiengesellschaft, or Orbital Transport and Rockets, Inc.) in the 1970s and...

Near Orbit is a 1989 role-playing game supplement published by R. Talsorian Games for Cyberpunk. Near Orbit is a supplement that introduces rules for adventuring...

A Rosetta orbit is a complex type of orbit. In astronomy, a Rosetta orbit occurs when there is a periastron shift during each orbital cycle. A retrograde...

lower density compared to the three. Ganymede orbits Jupiter in roughly seven days and is in a 1:2:4 orbital resonance with the moons Europa and Io, respectively...

single-stage-to-orbit chemically fueled spacecraft from Earth. The principal complicating factors for SSTO from Earth are: high orbital velocity of over...

Sanskrit: gagana, "celestial" and yāna, "craft, vehicle") is an Indian crewed orbital spacecraft intended to be the formative spacecraft of the Indian Human...

photocurrent and the molecular orbital density in reciprocal space can be established. Moreover, a reconstruction of molecular orbital densities in real space...

Orbital replacement units (or on-orbit replaceable unit) (ORUs) are key elements of the International Space Station that can be readily replaced when the...

The Orbital Test Satellite (OTS) programme was an experimental satellite system inherited by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 1975 from its predecessor...

(originally Orbital Sciences, then Orbital ATK, since 2018 Northrop) Pegasus (July 2026) ASM-135 ASAT (anti-satellite system) NOTS-EV-1 Pilot Virgin Orbit LauncherOne...

relatively pronounced orbital eccentricity of about 0.09; of the seven other planets in the Solar System, only Mercury has a larger orbital eccentricity. It...

planning instead of a lunar landing a crewed lunar orbital flight and an orbital laboratory station in orbit of Earth, at times called Project Olympus, as...

the Sun in 687 days and travels 9.55 AU in doing so, making the average orbital speed 24 km/s. The eccentricity is greater than that of any other planet...

Tundra orbit (Russian: орбита «Тундра») is a highly elliptical geosynchronous orbit with a high inclination (approximately 63.4°), an orbital period of...

the disciplines of celestial mechanics or its subfield orbital mechanics (for predicting orbital paths and positions for bodies in motion under the gravitational...

eccentric heliocentric orbit that reaches further than aphelion of Mars. On March 2, 2019, SpaceX launched its first orbital flight of Dragon 2 (Crew...

pterygopalatine fossa. It passes through the inferior orbital fissure to enter the orbit. It travels through the orbit, then enters and traverses the infraorbital...

replaces an absent natural eye following an enucleation, evisceration, or orbital exenteration. Someone with an ocular prosthesis is altogether blind on...

also known as DOS-1 (Durable Orbital Station 1), was the world's first space station. It was launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April...

molecular system is equal to the negative of the orbital energy of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO). This theorem is named after Tjalling Koopmans...

Earth orbit may refer to: Earth's orbit, the orbit of the Earth around the Sun Geocentric orbit, an orbit around the Earth Geostationary orbit Geosynchronous...

Network (MTN), formerly known as the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO), is a planned Mars orbiter mission intended to provide better communication for Mars...

creation of an orbital launch system prior to its 2012 launch. The eleven countries and successor states/union indicated in bold retain orbital launch capability...

Orbital angular momentum multiplexing is a physical layer method for multiplexing signals carried on electromagnetic waves using the orbital angular momentum...

design for Apollo EOR), same lift capacity Comparison of orbital launch systems Comparison of orbital launcher families Blue Origin recovery vessel The final...

if it moved in a circular orbit, with constant speed, in the same orbital period as the actual body in its elliptical orbit. Define T as the time required...

molecular orbital analysis as follows: In an open-chain system containing 4n π electrons, the orbital symmetry of the highest occupied molecule orbital is such...

positioned very near the intersection of Earth's orbital plane about the Sun and the Moon's orbital plane about the Earth (that is, at one of its nodes)...

molecular orbitals, which can be numbered i = 1 to n and which may not all be the same. The expression (linear expansion) for the i th molecular orbital would...

effect precedes the putative cause.) Since orbital variations are predictable, any model that relates orbital variations to climate can be run forward to...

the fifth human spaceflight, preceded by Soviet orbital flights Vostok 1 and 2 and American sub-orbital flights Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4. The Mercury spacecraft...

38P/Stephan–Oterma (also known as Comet Stephan–Oterma) is a periodic comet with an orbital period of 38 years. It fits the classical definition of a Halley-type comet...

systems where the orbital periods of the planets are in integer ratios. The Kepler-223 system contains four planets in an 8:6:4:3 orbital resonance. Some...

the direction of its orbital apsides is not aligned with those of previously known TNOs with high-perihelion elliptical orbits (sometimes known as sednoids)...

N1/L3 spacecraft's Block D lunar orbit insertion/descent stage by simulating the lunar orbit insertion burn, the lunar orbit circularization burn and the...

its orbit. Initially, Solar Orbiter was confined to the same orbital plane as the planets, but each encounter of Venus will increase its orbital inclination...

semi-orbital routes fared little better. Throughout the 20th century London's railways operated on a radial model and the few remaining semi-orbital passenger...

In mathematics, the orbit method (also known as the Kirillov theory, the method of coadjoint orbits and by a few similar names) establishes a correspondence...

connecting the apsides (line of apsides) of an astronomical body's orbit. The apsides are the orbital points farthest (apoapsis) and closest (periapsis) from its...

Anthony Albanese as Australia's first sovereign orbital rocket, took place on 30 July 2025 from Bowen Orbital Spaceport at Abbot Point, Bowen, resulting in...

shown of these orbital shapes of these electrons are entirely mathematical constructs. As a purely experimental technique electron orbital imaging has the...

The Space Shuttle orbiter was the spaceplane component of the Space Shuttle, a partially reusable orbital spacecraft system that was part of the discontinued...

fossa; it is separated from the orbital surface by a rounded border, which enters into the formation of the inferior orbital fissure. The seven bones which...

Navigation Office) Archived 11 August 2023 at the Wayback Machine CelesTrak: Beidou (Orbital elements from NORAD); see search for retired satellites...

muscle at the orbital apex, the optic nerve is at risk of compression. The orbital fat or the stretching of the nerve due to increased orbital volume may...

parts, usually referring to an increased distance between the orbits (eyes), or orbital hypertelorism. In this condition, the distance between the inner...

include non-synchronous orbital resonances in which there is no further transfer of angular momentum over the course of one orbit. In Mercury's case, the...

The Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station is a proposed orbital space station intended for commercial clients. The station was initially proposed...

PSLV Orbital Experiment Platform (POEM) also known as PSLV Stage 4 Orbital Platform (PS4-OP) is an orbital micro-gravity test bed based on spent fourth...

the mouth, and labial glands. They are joined, immediately beneath the orbit, by filaments from the facial nerve, forming with them the infraorbital...

The orbital or horizontal part of the frontal bone (pars orbitalis) consists of two thin triangular plates, the orbital plates, which form the vaults...

The orbital angular momentum of light (OAM) is the component of angular momentum of a light beam that is dependent on the field spatial distribution,...

planetary system. Earth and Venus have a near orbital resonance of 13:8 (Earth orbits eight times for every 13 orbits of Venus). Therefore, they approach each...

close to its parent star. In this case, orbital distance is almost one-tenth that of Mercury from the Sun. One orbital revolution lasts only about 3 days....

contains only one orbital, and therefore the mℓ of an electron in an s orbital will always be 0. The p subshell (ℓ = 1) contains three orbitals, so the mℓ of...

In stellar dynamics, a box orbit refers to a particular type of orbit that can be seen in triaxial systems, i.e. systems that do not possess a symmetry...

The NASA Orbital Debris Program Office is located at the Johnson Space Center and is the lead NASA center for orbital debris research. It is recognized...

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

Lyman Spitzer in 1946, the first operational telescopes were the American Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, OAO-2 launched in 1968, and the Soviet Orion...

"Orbital - Middle Of Nowhere - almost cool music review". Archived from the original on 25 February 2006. Bush, John. "The Middle of Nowhere – Orbital"...

The Barcelona orbital line (Catalan: línia orbital) is a railway project forming part of both the Pla d'infraestructures de Catalunya (PITC), a long-term...

at hypersonic speeds due to their sub-orbital (e.g., intercontinental ballistic missile reentry vehicles), orbital (e.g., the Soyuz), or unbounded (e.g...

sp2-hybridized orbital and a p-orbital that is not involved in the hybridization. A triple bond is formed with an sp-hybridized orbital and two p-orbitals from...

tracking, and remediating orbital debris" (PDF). Cost and Benefit Analysis of Mitigating, Tracking, and Remediating Orbital Debris. National Aeronautics...

1966 by the first soft landing (by Luna 9) and orbital insertion (by Luna 10). Humans first arrived in orbit with Apollo 8 (sent by the United States) on...

ground movement and interplanetary travel is supported, including orbital and sub-orbital flight, although only vessel-ground collisions are supported. Docking...

for reentry. Delta-v budget Gravity drag Orbital maneuver Orbital stationkeeping Spacecraft propulsion Orbital propellant depot Specific impulse Tsiolkovsky...

palpebral portion can be seen. The orbital lobe of the gland, contains fine interlobular ducts that connect the orbital lobe and the palpebral lobe. They...

Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter (JGO) was a part of the international Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM). It was a proposed orbiter by the ESA slated for lift-off...

satellites are located in middle circular orbit at 19,100 km (11,900 mi) altitude with a 64.8° inclination and an orbital period of 11 hours and 16 minutes (every...

of the other objects that share its orbital zone. It is a measure of the actual degree of cleanliness of the orbital zone. Soter proposed that if μ > 100...

A Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) is a warhead delivery system that uses a low Earth orbit towards its target destination. Just before reaching...

the bonding, orbital arrangement, and other characteristics of coordination complexes. It represents an application of molecular orbital theory to transition...

satellites' orbital parameters. In 2016, the Juno spacecraft imaged the Galilean moons from above their orbital plane as it approached Jupiter orbit insertion...

periorbita is the area around the orbit. Sometimes it refers specifically to the layer of tissue surrounding the orbit that consists of periosteum. However...

An orbital stretch wrapper is a means of applying stretchable plastic film to a load, consisting of a roll (or rolls) of stretch wrap supported on a vertical...

A fixed orbit is the concept, in atomic physics, where an electron is considered to remain in a specific orbit, at a fixed distance from an atom's nucleus...

extrasolar planet orbiting in the 91 Aquarii system approximately 148 light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius. It orbits at the average distance...

unique features and benefits. The orbital riveting process is different from impact riveting and spiralform riveting. Orbital riveting requires less downward...

that the probe's orbital insertion maneuver had failed, because of a defect in the orbital insertion burn. After the craft orbited the Sun for five years...

sheet: GMD Boost Vehicle" (PDF). Orbital Sciences Corporation. Orbital Sciences Ground-based interceptor (GBI) (2002) Orbital Boost Vehicle (OBV) William Graham...

Orbit, also sold in some markets as Extra, Freedent or Yida, is a brand of sugarless chewing gum from the Wrigley Company. In the United States, where...

with a day-long orbital flight in August 1961. The US reached its orbital goal on February 20, 1962, when John Glenn made three orbits around the Earth...

primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements" and data available from the Minor Planet Center. Critical list...

was evolved into the Orbital Space Plane Program and the Next Generation Launch Technology Program. Future versions of the Orbital Space Plane would have...

primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements" and data available from the Minor Planet Center. Critical list...

Concerning the size and shape of an orbit Nautical almanac – Publication on celestial body positions Osculating orbit – Orbital perturbations Ptolemy's table...

developed the orbital engine and the orbital combustion process engine. Sarich founded the Orbital Engine Company, which developed the orbital combustion...

An orbital pass (or simply pass) is the period in which a spacecraft is above the local horizon, and thus available for line-of-sight communication with...

{\displaystyle v_{o}} is orbital velocity of a body in circular orbit. For a body moving along this kind of trajectory the orbital equation is: r = h 2 μ...

{\displaystyle e} are respectively the satellite's mean radius, mean orbital motion, orbital distance, and eccentricity. M h {\displaystyle M_{h}} is the host...

asteroid in orbit around the Sun in 1:1 orbital resonance with Earth, making it a co-orbital object. It is an asteroid that, relative to Earth, orbits the Sun...

The supraorbital foramen, is a bony elongated opening located above the orbit (eye socket) and under the forehead. It is part of the frontal bone of the...

mission because the reflected light variation with orbital phase is largely independent of orbital inclination and does not require the planet to pass...

equal to the time of its periastron. Apsidal precession Kepler orbit Orbital mechanics Orbital node Iglesias-Marzoa, Ramón; López-Morales, Mercedes; Jesús...

company released preliminary plans in February 2020 for how the Axiom Orbital Segment could form the basis for the Axiom Station, constructed out of...

orbital (MO) theory, that were developed to use the methods of quantum mechanics to describe chemical bonding. It focuses on how the atomic orbitals of...

of the orbital angular momentum that lies along a given axis, conventionally called the z-axis, so it describes the orientation of the orbital in space...

through the inferior orbital fissure to enter the orbit, then passes forward along the floor of the orbit, finally exiting the orbit through the infraorbital...

periodic comet in the Solar System orbiting the Sun every 6.41 years inside the main asteroid belt between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It...

British electronica duo Orbital. It includes their single "One Perfect Sunrise". The album was released on CD and LP formats. Orbital announced that this...

4.7 AU (700 million km), comet 94P currently has an orbit contained completely inside of the orbit of Jupiter. It fits the definition of an Encke-type...

radius r: √(2Gm)/r. ^ Orbital speed is calculated using the mean orbital radius and the orbital period, assuming a circular orbit. ^ Assuming a density...

to reach orbital velocity around the Earth and to complete a full orbit around the Earth. The orbital spaceflight consisted of a single orbit around the...

primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements" and data available from the Minor Planet Center. Critical list...

conventional orbital launch systems. This is composed of launch vehicles, and other conventional systems, used to place satellites into orbit. ORBIT II – Retired...

primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements" and data available from the Minor Planet Center. Critical list...

trochlear fovea is a slight depression on the anteromedial orbital surface of the orbital plate of the frontal bone. Attached to the trochlear fovea is...

outer shell. The only parameters of the planet's orbit that are currently available are its orbital period (about 290 days) and its inclination (approximately...

particles, is called orbital angular velocity. A rigid body rotating about a fixed axis has each point of the body having the same orbital angular velocity...

sublimating gas from its surface, which knock it very slightly off its orbital path. These orbital changes cause delays in its perihelion passage of four days on...

a spacecraft to burn its fuel is at the lowest possible orbital periapsis, when its orbital velocity (and so, its kinetic energy) is greatest. In some...

is frequently perturbed Osculating orbit Orbit modeling Orbital resonance Perturbation theory Proper orbital elements Stability of the Solar System Footnotes...

The MOM probe spent about a month in Earth orbit, where it made a series of seven apogee-raising orbital maneuver before trans-Mars injection on 30 November...

primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements" and data available from the Minor Planet Center. Critical list...

Observation prediction · Orbital info · MOID · Proper elements · Observational info · Close approaches · Physical info · Orbit animation (89830) 2002 CE...

standard procedure for all orbital launch vehicles flown prior to that time. Both were subsequently demonstrated on actual orbital nominal flights, although...

of the Manned Orbital Development System, or MODS. The plan was to use off-the-shelf Gemini spacecraft. It began as the Military Orbital Development System...

The orbital lamina of ethmoid bone (or lamina papyracea or orbital lamina) is a smooth, oblong,[citation needed] paper-thin bone plate[citation needed]...

(pronounced 86P/Vilt) is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 6.84 years. Its nucleus is estimated to have an effective radius...

Orbit Group is a housing group providing affordable housing to around 47,000 households in England, mainly in the Midlands, East Anglia and the south...

is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids). Asteroids are rocky...

Norfolk Orbital Railway. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014. Scotter, Kate (15 December 2014). "Norfolk Orbital Railway...

three-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle originally proposed by Orbital ATK (subsequently Northrop Grumman after the 2018 acquisition of Orbital ATK) that principally...

telescopes in the 20th century ESA Space Debris Telescope "Orbital Debris Optical Measurements". NASA Orbital Debris Program Office. Archived from the original...

in an Earth orbit, it had a perigee of 183 kilometres (114 mi), an apogee of 223 kilometres (139 mi), an inclination of 51.6° and an orbital period of 88...

(Jupiter size or larger) orbiting red dwarfs is only 1 in 40. On the other hand, microlensing surveys indicate that long-orbital-period Neptune-mass planets...

three-line element set (3LE) is a data format encoding a list of orbital elements of an Earth-orbiting object for a given point in time, the epoch. Using a suitable...

or co-orbital weapons fired by satellites or other spacecraft in orbit. A theorized use involves the extension of conventional weaponry into orbit for deployment...

and less than 0.5 L☉. The pair orbit around a common centre with an orbital period of 79 years. Their elliptical orbit is eccentric, so that the distance...

atoms from the lower periods, trends in orbital hybridization depend strongly on both electronegativity and orbital size. In the early 1930s, shortly after...

The middle temporal artery occasionally gives off a zygomatico-orbital branch, which runs along the upper border of the zygomatic arch, between the two...

planets with highly inclined orbits, large eccentricities and an orbital period of more than 200 earth years (that is, those orbiting beyond Neptune). Pluto...

_{k}} and ϵ k {\displaystyle \epsilon _{k}} are called molecular orbital and orbital energy respectively. Although Hartree-Fock equation appears in the...

Starliner-1, the fourth orbital flight of the Starliner spacecraft. ISRO aims to launch Gaganyaan-1, India's first uncrewed orbital test flight to support...

individual elements are statites, non-orbital objects held aloft by the pressure of sunlight. A Bishop Ring, Halo or Orbital is a space habitat similar to but...

The Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) was a NASA program to spur the development of private spacecraft and launch vehicles for deliveries...

of co-orbital configuration (1:1 orbital resonance) with a planet (or dwarf planet) where the object stays close to that planet over many orbital periods...

orbital launcher families Comparison of orbital launch systems Small-lift launch vehicle – Rocket able to lift less than 2,000 kg to low Earth orbit Falcon...

molecular orbital theory, proposed by Erich Hückel in 1930, is a simple method for calculating molecular orbitals as linear combinations of atomic orbitals. The...

Mars Piloted Orbital Station (or Marspost) is a Russian concept for an orbital human mission to Mars, with several proposed configurations, including...

{\displaystyle \rho _{m}} is the density of the satellite. This represents the orbital distance inside of which loose material (e.g. regolith) on the surface...

Orbit spectrum, also known as satellite spectrum, is a segment of a radio spectrum that becomes available when satellites are placed into orbit. This...

eccentric heliocentric orbit that reaches further than the aphelion of Mars. On 2 March 2019, SpaceX launched its first orbital flight of Dragon 2 (Crew...

is displayed in figure 3. First one separates the cases of having the orbital pole in the direction r 1 × r 2 {\displaystyle \mathbf {r} _{1}\times \mathbf...

CO2 observing satellite, after GOSAT. The OCO-2 satellite was built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, based around the LEOStar-2 bus. The spacecraft is...

The Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test (also known as Boe-OFT) was the first orbital mission of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, conducted by Boeing...

(PADME): A LADEE-Derived Mission to Explore Mars's Moons and the Martian Orbital Environment (PDF). 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2014)....

objects stay in a 2:3 mean-motion orbital resonance with Neptune, orbiting exactly two times the Sun for every three orbits Neptune does and are therefore...

planet orbits every 5.07 days at 0.06 AU. It orbits within a "photoevaporation desert", where orbiting exoplanets should be very uncommon. K2-66b's orbit is...

would make three orbits for each orbit of Jupiter (hence, called the 3:1 orbital resonance). Other orbital resonances correspond to orbital periods whose...

Observation prediction · Orbital info · MOID · Proper elements · Observational info · Close approaches · Physical info · Orbit animation (6491) 1991 OA...

atomic orbitals. The concept of sigma bonding is extended to describe bonding interactions involving overlap of a single lobe of one orbital with a single...

contract with designer Orbital Sciences, $16M from NASA and various government agencies for testing, and an additional $10M for Orbital Sciences to adapt its...

radio signal was easily detectable by amateur radio operators, and the 65° orbital inclination made its flight path cover virtually the entire inhabited Earth...

primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements" and data available from the Minor Planet Center. Critical list...

Retrieved 4 February 2011. "Orbit Rich Media Downloader Changelog". Archived from the original on 27 July 2018. "Orbital Decay: the dark side of a popular...

two-stage-to-orbit (TSTO) or two-stage rocket is a launch vehicle in which two distinct stages provide propulsion consecutively in order to achieve orbital velocity...

2012 GX17 follows a rather eccentric orbit (0.55) with a semi-major axis of 37.4 AU. This object also has high orbital inclination (32.5º). 2012 GX17 is...

Made - How & Where Orbital Launch Vehicles Are Built". Headed For Space. Retrieved 2026-01-11. Loftus, Joseph P. (1989). Orbital Debris from Upper-stage...

(CRS SpX-1) and Orbital in 2014 (CRS Orb-1). In 2015, NASA extended CRS-1 to twenty flights for SpaceX and twelve flights for Orbital ATK. A second phase...

also known as Neujmin 1, is a large 21-km in diameter periodic comet that orbits the Sun in 18 years. With a perihelion distance (closest approach to the...

interaction between molecular orbitals. Anti-periplanar geometry will put a bonding orbital and an anti-bonding orbital approximately parallel to each...

binaries. Many visual binaries have long orbital periods of several centuries or millennia and therefore have orbits which are uncertain or poorly known....

atomic orbital on one atom overlap four lobes of an atomic orbital on another atom. This overlap leads to the formation of a bonding molecular orbital with...

life-support systems. With the high cost of orbital spaceflight (around $1400 per kg, or $640 per pound, to low Earth orbit by SpaceX Falcon Heavy), a space settlement...

orbit with negligible eccentricity, the mean orbital speed can be approximated by the time T it takes to complete one revolution around its orbital circumference...

Cancri Ae orbits very close to its parent star; with average orbital distance of 0.01544 ± 0.00005 AU, it takes only 18 hours to complete an orbit. Analysis...

recording under the name Orbital with keyboards, a drum machine and a 4-track. Hartnoll's first brush with fame came when Orbital appeared on Top of the...

primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements" and data available from the Minor Planet Center. Critical list...

Orbital info · Proper elements · Observational info 532037 Chiminigagua at the JPL Small-Body Database Close approach · Discovery · Ephemeris · Orbit...

and G rings and achieved orbit, after a seven-year voyage. It was the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn. The Saturn Orbital Insertion (SOI) maneuver performed...

or lower. Kepler-186f orbits its star with about 5% of the Sun's luminosity with an orbital period of 129.9 days and an orbital radius of about 0.40 times...

both aircraft and spacecraft. Orbital spaceplanes tend to be more similar to conventional spacecraft, while sub-orbital spaceplanes tend to be more similar...

larger bodies such as Pallas, "planetoid"). With an orbital inclination of 34.8°, Pallas's orbit is unusually highly inclined to the plane of the asteroid...

removal of the entire orbital contents, including the eye, extraocular muscles, fat, and connective tissues; usually for malignant orbital tumors. Ocular prosthetics...

States. The minor planet orbits the Sun at a distance of 38.6–40.6 AU once every 249 years and 1 month (90,983 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0...

its spin and its orbital angular momentum. If the spin has half-integer values, such as ⁠1/2⁠ for an electron, then the total (orbital plus spin) angular...

Earth orbit of 200 km). The required additional change in speed, however, is far less because the spacecraft already has a significant orbital speed (in...

An orbital replacement unit or orbital replaceable unit is a modular component of spacecraft that can be replaced upon failure either by robot or by extravehicular...

A low orbit will have an orbital period of about 100 minutes and the Earth will rotate around its polar axis about 25° between successive orbits. The ground...

September 1961. Its perihelion was well beyond the orbit of Mars, at 2.133 AU. The outbound orbital period is about 2,516 years. It was a "giant" comet...

00±0.13 hours, suggesting that the planet's rotation is aligned with its orbital plane. The planet was discovered on November 18, 2008, by Anne-Marie Lagrange...

Venture Orbital Systems) is a French start-up based in Reims. It is developing the Zephyr Launcher and its 3D-printed engine, Navier, to offer orbital launch...

Transportation System-1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program. The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on April 12, 1981, and...

which includes orbital hybridization and resonance, and molecular orbital theory, which includes the linear combination of atomic orbitals and ligand field...

fatalities, including Laika, the first animal to orbit Earth, who on 3 November 1957 was sent on a one-way orbital mission aboard Sputnik 2. Dogs were the preferred...

February 2003). "18D/Perrine-Mrkos past, present and future orbital elements". Comet Orbit. Retrieved 10 April 2026. (Kinoshita Orbit1 for 2026 perihelion)...

Orbital periods and speeds are calculated using the relations 4π2R3 = T2GM and V2R = GM, where R is the radius of orbit in metres; T is the orbital period...

2011, the Minotaur lifted off, carrying USA-225 into orbit. The launch was conducted by Orbital Sciences Corporation. For launch, the RPP satellite was...

Horizontal section of nasal and orbital cavities. (Note distinction between infraorbital groove and inferior orbital fissure.) This article incorporates...

ascension, governed by the combined effects of Earth's axial tilt and its orbital eccentricity. An analemma can be photographed by keeping a camera at a...

primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements" and data available from the Minor Planet Center. Critical list...

synchronized variations in its orbital eccentricity and inclination over a 600-year period. Neso shares similar orbital characteristics with two other...

million km. The planet's eccentricity (0.02) is about the same as Earth. The orbital distance for this planet ranges from 5.05 to 5.25 AU. This planet was discovered...

with Orbital Sciences Corporation. The spinoff of the Sporting Group to create Vista Outdoor and the merger leading to the creation of Orbital ATK were...

orbital characteristics. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.7–3.0 AU once every 3 years and 7 months (1,308 days). Its orbit...

1975) is an English novelist. She won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital, which drew on conventions from multiple genres and fields, including literary...

do not classify these objects as sednoids because their orbits still experience gradual orbital migration as a result of perturbations by galactic tides...

terrestrial planet. The orbit of LHS 1140 b takes 24.737 days to complete, much quicker than Earth's year of 365 days. Its orbital radius is at 0.0946 AU...

2003–2006 Mars Base Camp – Concept Mars orbiter Mars Piloted Orbital Station – Russian concept for an orbital human mission to Mars Starship HLS – Lunar...

reached space, it did not reach orbital velocity, and therefore returned to Earth in an impact, becoming the first sub-orbital spaceflight. In 1949, the Bumper-WAC...

can share the orbits of planets or of large moons. Trojans are one type of co-orbital object. In this arrangement, a star and a planet orbit about their...

et al. (2004). "The CORALIE survey for southern extra-solar planets XII. Orbital solutions for 16 extra-solar planets discovered with CORALIE". Astronomy...

(MSFC). The Orbital Express program was aimed at developing "a safe and cost-effective approach to autonomously service satellites in orbit". The system...

Anatomy (20th ed.). p. 659. Dutton JJ: Osteology of the orbit. In Atlas of clinical and surgical orbital anatomy, Philadelphia, 1994, WB Saunders Portal: Anatomy...

applied to orbital maneuvers in order to determine how much propellant is needed to change to a particular new orbit, or to find the new orbit as the result...

Martian orbit may refer to: the orbit of Mars around the Sun an areocentric orbit, orbit of an object around Mars an areostationary orbit an areosynchronous...

Space declared bankruptcy and ATK merged with Orbital Science Corporation to form Orbital ATK. In 2017 Orbital ATK got the go ahead from the FCC to begin...

64P/Swift–Gehrels is a periodic comet in the Solar System which has a current orbital period of 9.23 years. It was originally discovered on 17 November 1889...

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Osculating Orbital Elements for Comet Hyakutake (C/1996 B2)". Archived from the original on 5 June 2019. Retrieved 31 January 2011. "Comet Hyakutake: Orbital elements...

measurement of the angle between the planet's orbital plane and the equatorial plane of the star. This planet's spin-orbit angle was initially measured by Narita...

Gauss, whose orbital calculations had enabled astronomers to confirm the existence of Ceres, the first asteroid, and who had computed the orbit of the new...

launching spacecraft into Earth's orbit or on interplanetary trajectories. However, rocket launch sites for sub-orbital spaceflights are also sometimes...

observation arc of 597 days allowing a good estimate of the orbit. Using JPL Horizons, the barycentric orbital elements for epoch 2020-Jan-01 generate a semi-major...

orbital radius to Mars's orbital radius (to overcome the Sun's gravity) is many kilometres per second, but the incremental burn from low Earth orbit (LEO)...

aft end of the orbiter and provided thrust during launch. Once in space, the crew maneuvered using the two smaller, aft-mounted Orbital Maneuvering System...

body is perturbed into a different orbit with a different MOID value. Two objects gravitationally locked in orbital resonance may never approach one another...

primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements" and data available from the Minor Planet Center. Critical list...

orbital (e.g. C–H or C–C) with an adjacent unpopulated non-bonding p or antibonding σ* or π* orbitals to give a pair of extended molecular orbitals....

motion, orbit determination, orbital maneuvers, relative motion and rendezvous, and interplanetary trajectories. The text focuses primarily on orbital mechanics...

trans-Neptunian object orbiting the Sun at a semi-major axis or average distance of 41.9 astronomical units (AU). It has an orbital eccentricity of 0.08...

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planets, moons, and comets. Orbital mechanics focuses on spacecraft trajectories, including orbital maneuvers, orbital plane changes, and interplanetary...

Janus shares a unique orbital relationship with another moon, Epimetheus. The discovery of these two moons' peculiar co-orbital configuration was later...

at the new orbital position 28.2° East, and eventually moving all of its United Kingdom and Ireland transmission capacity to this orbital slot.[citation...

in a prograde orbit (satellite moving to a higher orbit, away from the primary body, with a lower orbital speed and hence a longer orbital period), and...

It orbits in a nearly perfect circular orbit compared to long period gas giants. Due to the unknown orbital parameters, the planets true mass is not...

and orbital used to generate them. For example, CuKα X-rays are emitted from the K orbital of copper. X-ray absorption is reported as which orbital absorbed...

because the Orbital Monsoon Hypothesis assumes that there is an instantaneous response by the climate system to changes in insolation from orbital forcing...

large masses and large orbits. The first discovery of a low-mass companion orbiting a brown dwarf (ChaHα8) at a small orbital distance using the radial...