Aerospace

Aerospace

Industry that includes methods of travel and spacecraft for navigating the air or space.

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gravity waves

Aerospace; Space flight

Certain dynamical features in a planet's atmosphere (not to be confused with gravitational waves, see above).

gravity assist

Aerospace; Space flight

Technique whereby a spacecraft takes angular momentum from a planet's solar orbit (or a satellite's orbit) to accelerate the spacecraft, or the reverse. See Chapter 4.

gravitational waves

Aerospace; Space flight

Einsteinian distortions of the space-time medium predicted by general relativity theory (not yet directly detected as of March 2010). (Not to be confused with gravity waves.)

gravitation

Aerospace; Space flight

The mutual attraction of all masses in the universe. Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation holds that every two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly ...