Space flight

Space flight

Of or relating to the act of voyaging outside the Earth's atmosphere and into outer space, and the science involved in achieving it.

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gravity waves

Aerospace; Space flight

Certain dynamical features in a planet's atmosphere (not to be confused with gravitational waves, see above).

gravity assist

Aerospace; Space flight

Technique whereby a spacecraft takes angular momentum from a planet's solar orbit (or a satellite's orbit) to accelerate the spacecraft, or the reverse. See Chapter 4.

gravitational waves

Aerospace; Space flight

Einsteinian distortions of the space-time medium predicted by general relativity theory (not yet directly detected as of March 2010). (Not to be confused with gravity waves.)

The mutual attraction of all masses in the universe. Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation holds that every two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of ...