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Aerospace

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

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superior conjunction

Aerospace; Space flight

Alignment between Earth and a planet on the far side of the sun.

trajectory correction maneuver (TCM)

Aerospace; Space flight

A spacecraft’s propulsive maneuver.

superior planet

Aerospace; Space flight

Planet which orbits farther from the sun than Earth's orbit.

sun synchronous orbit

Aerospace; Space flight

A spacecraft orbit that precesses, wherein the location of periapsis changes with respect to the planet's surface so as to keep the periapsis location near the same local time on ...

sunset

Aerospace; Space flight

For technical definition, please follow this link to the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications website.

sunrise

Aerospace; Space flight

For technical definition, please follow this link to the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications website.

subcarrier

Aerospace; Space flight

Modulation applied to a carrier which is itself modulated with information-carrying variations.