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Aerospace

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

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centrifugal force

Aerospace; Space flight

The outward-tending apparent force of a body revolving around another body.

cassegrain

Aerospace; Space flight

Reflecting scheme in antennas and telescopes having a primary and a secondary reflecting surface to "fold" the EMF back to a focus near the primary reflector.

carrier

Aerospace; Space flight

The main frequency of a radio signal generated by a transmitter prior to application of any modulation.

c

Aerospace; Space flight

The speed of light, 299,792 km per second.

bi-phase

Aerospace; Space flight

A modulation scheme in which data symbols are represented by a shift from one phase to another. See Chapter 10.

billion

Aerospace; Space flight

In the U.S., 109. In other countries using SI, 1012.

beacon

Aerospace; Space flight

Downlink from a spacecraft that immediately indicates the state of the spacecraft as being one of several possible states by virtue of the presence and/or frequency of the ...