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Aerospace

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

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conjunction

Aerospace; Space flight

A configuration in which two celestial bodies have their least apparent separation.

coherent

Aerospace; Space flight

Two-way communications mode wherein the spacecraft generates its downlink frequency based upon the frequency of the uplink it receives.

clarke orbit

Aerospace; Space flight

Geostationary orbit.

civil twilight

Aerospace; Space flight

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

channel

Aerospace; Space flight

In telemetry, one particular measurement to which changing values may be assigned. See Chapter 10.

chandler wobble

Aerospace; Space flight

A small motion in the Earth's rotation axis relative to the surface, discovered by American astronomer Seth Carlo Chandler in 1891. Its amplitude is about 0.7 arcseconds (about 15 ...

centripetal acceleration

Aerospace; Space flight

The inward acceleration of a body revolving around another body.