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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transducer

Aerospace; Space flight

Device for changing one kind of energy into another, typically from heat, position, or pressure into a varying electrical voltage or vice-versa, such as a microphone or speaker.

transfer orbit stage, upper stage (TOS)

Aerospace; Space flight

An upper stage developed by Martin Marietta for Orbital Sciences Corporation during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The TOS was designed to be a lower-cost alternative to Inertial Upper Stage and ...

three-way

Aerospace; Space flight

Coherent communications mode wherein a DSS receives a downlink whose frequency is based upon the frequency of an uplink provided by another DSS.

terrestrial planet

Aerospace; Space flight

One of the four inner Earth-like planets.

tera (T)

Aerospace; Space flight

A multiplier x1012, from the Greek teras (monster). See the entry for CGPM.

termination shock

Aerospace; Space flight

Shock at which the solar wind is thought to slow to subsonic speed, well inside the heleopause.

time-division multiplexing (TDM)

Aerospace; Space flight

A type of digital or (rarely) analog multiplexing in which two or more signals or bit streams are transferred apparently simultaneously as sub-channels in one communication channel, but are ...