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.

Industry: Aerospace

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spacecraft clock (SCLK)

Aerospace; Space flight

Time, the time counter clock onboard a spacecraft.

saturn

Aerospace; Space flight

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

s-band

Aerospace; Space flight

A range of microwave radio frequencies in the neighborhood of 2 to 4 ghz.

A small body which orbits a larger one. A natural or an artificial moon. Earth-orbiting spacecraft are called satellites. While deep-space vehicles are technically satellites of the sun or of another ...

synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Aerospace; Space flight

A radar whose defining characteristic is its use of relative motion between an antenna and its target region to provide distinctive long-term coherent-signal variations that are exploited to obtain ...

solar array (SA)

Aerospace; Space flight

A packaged interconnected assembly of solar cells, also known as photovoltaic cells. The solar panel can be used as a component of a larger photovoltaic system to generate and supply electricity to ...