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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velocity

Aerospace; Space flight

A vector quantity whose magnitude is a body's speed and whose direction is the body's direction of motion.

ultraviolet (UV)

Aerospace; Space flight

Literally means "above violet" radiation. Electromagnetic radiation in the neighborhood of 100 nanometers wavelength.

coordinated universal time (UTC)

The world-wide scientific standard of timekeeping. It is based upon carefully maintained atomic clocks and is highly stable. Its rate does not change by more than about 100 picoseconds per day. The ...

uranus

Aerospace; Space flight

Seventh planet from the sun, a gas giant or Jovian planet.

universal time (UT)

Aerospace; Space flight

Also called Zulu (Z) time, previously Greenwich Mean Time. UT is based on the imaginary "mean sun," which averages out the effects on the length of the solar day caused by Earth's slightly ...