orbital
39
6.3
- adjective
- /ˈɔrbɪtəl/
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orbital
- The satellite entered an orbital path around the Earth, where it would remain for several years.
- orbital period
- orbital motion
- orbital speed
And then all that leading to an orbital launch test?
- And then all that leading to an orbital launch test?
- And so the the orbital dynamics of this are deep.
- And those are the challenges of orbital collisions.
- It is an aerospace orbital airship.
- all of Blue Origin is to not only do sub orbital but also orbital and to democratize
- And so he didn't know that reusable orbital class vehicles wasn't the way things were done.
- I mean, relatively speaking, they track all that it's called MMOD micrometeorite orbital debris.
- So a few times bigger than the Earth and have orbital periods that kind of range from days to to weeks.
- That's the relation between the distance between two bodies, the D in the formula here the mass that's M, and their orbital periods, that's P.
- That's rocket launch emissions, radio transmissions, sunlight reflections, orbital debris and emissions and debris from satellite re entry.
Examples
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Its orbital radius is decreasing.
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And those are the challenges of orbital collisions.
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And then all that leading to an orbital launch test?
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We call this S, the S orbital, right?
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We want all the information you can give us on size and orbital elements.
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So the charge always goes to lowest orbital first, right?
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Why does this particular orbital have a node?
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So we have these three orbital oscillations.
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ISS has entered catastrophic orbital decay.
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When the Earth crosses the comet's orbital path, the dust strikes the Earth's atmosphere and burns up.
Academic text (1994)
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.9
A flat path in space that a thing follows as it goes around a planet or star
- Specialized
1
5.3
Movement of one object around another in space, like a planet around a star
- Specialized
An object moving in a curved path around another object, not spinning on itself
How High
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- Specialized
39
6.3
- Specialized
3
8.2
20
4.2
87
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Orbital comes from the word orbit, which comes from Latin orbita meaning 'path' or 'track' and is related to orb meaning 'round'. So, something described as orbital is about the path one object takes as it moves around another.