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Aerospace

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

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meridians

Aerospace; Space flight

Great circles that pass through both the north and south poles, also called lines of longitude.

mean solar time

Aerospace; Space flight

Time based on an average of the variations caused by Earth's non-circular orbit. The 24-hour day is based on mean solar time.

mass

Aerospace; Space flight

A fundamental property of an object comprising a numerical measure of its inertia; the amount of matter in the object. While an object's mass is constant (ignoring Relativity for ...

maser

Aerospace; Space flight

A microwave travelling wave tube amplifier named for its process of Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Compare with Laser. In the Deep Space Network, ...

mars

Aerospace; Space flight

Fourth planet from the sun, a terrestrial planet.

major axis

Aerospace; Space flight

The maximum diameter of an ellipse.

longitude

Aerospace; Space flight

Great circles that pass through both the north and south poles, also called meridians.