Home > Industry/Domain > Aerospace
Aerospace
Industry that includes methods of travel and spacecraft for navigating the air or space.
4Categories 22286Terms
Add a new termContributors in Aerospace
Aerospace > Space flight 
lagrange points
Aerospace; Space flight
Five points with respect to an orbit which a body can stably occupy. Designated L1 through L5. See Chapter 5.
klystron
Aerospace; Space flight
A microwave travelling wave tube power amplifier used in transmitters.
kilogram (kg)
Aerospace; Space flight
The SI base unit of mass, based on the mass of a metal cylinder kept in France. See also g (gram).
keyhole
Aerospace; Space flight
An area in the sky where an antenna cannot track a spacecraft because the required angular rates would be too high. Mechanical limitations may also contribute to keyhole size. ...
k-band
Aerospace; Space flight
A range of microwave radio frequencies in the neighborhood of 12 to 40 ghz.
Sub-categories
- Control systems (1744)
- Satellites (11359)
- Space flight (8863)
- Space shuttle (354)