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Aerospace

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

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Neptune

Aerospace; Space shuttle

Eighth planet from the Sun, a gas giant or Jovian planet.

Neutron

Aerospace; Space shuttle

That force which gives a mass of 1 kilogram an acceleration of 1 meter per second per second; equal to 100,000 dynes.

nose shroud

Aerospace; Space shuttle

A cover on the nose of a rocket or spacecraft which jettisons before insertion into orbit.

one-way light time

Aerospace; Space shuttle

The elapsed time it takes for light, or a radio signal, to reach a spacecraft or other body from Earth, or vice versa.

oort cloud

Aerospace; Space shuttle

A large swarm of comets theorized to orbit the sun in the neighborhood of 50,000 AU.

orbit insertion

Aerospace; Space shuttle

The placing of a spacecraft into orbit around a planet or moon.

orbit trim maneuver

Aerospace; Space shuttle

The firing of control rockets to refine a spacecraft's speed and trajectory.