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Aerospace

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

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Aerospace > Space flight

spacecraft clock (SCLK)

Aerospace; Space flight

Time, the time counter clock onboard a spacecraft.

saturn

Aerospace; Space flight

Sixth planet from the sun, a gas giant or Jovian planet.

s-band

Aerospace; Space flight

A range of microwave radio frequencies in the neighborhood of 2 to 4 ghz.

satellite

Aerospace; Space flight

A small body which orbits a larger one. A natural or an artificial moon. Earth-orbiting spacecraft are called satellites. While deep-space vehicles are technically satellites of ...

synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Aerospace; Space flight

A radar whose defining characteristic is its use of relative motion between an antenna and its target region to provide distinctive long-term coherent-signal variations that are ...

solar array (SA)

Aerospace; Space flight

A packaged interconnected assembly of solar cells, also known as photovoltaic cells. The solar panel can be used as a component of a larger photovoltaic system to generate and ...

right ascension

Aerospace; Space flight

The angular distance of a celestial object measured in hours, minutes, and seconds along the celestial equator eastward from the vernal equinox.

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