- Industry: Aerospace
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The Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research.
Shock at which the solar wind is thought to slow to subsonic speed, well inside the heleopause.
Industry:Aerospace
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 physically taking turns on the channel.
Industry:Aerospace
Alignment between Earth and a planet on the far side of the sun.
Industry:Aerospace
A spacecraft orbit that precesses, wherein the location of periapsis changes with respect to the planet's surface so as to keep the periapsis location near the same local time on the planet each orbit. See walking orbit.
Industry:Aerospace
For technical definition, please follow this link to the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications website.
Industry:Aerospace
For technical definition, please follow this link to the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications website.
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Modulation applied to a carrier which is itself modulated with information-carrying variations.
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Another name for the space shuttle. Spacecraft used to transport astronauts or satellites into space.
Industry:Aerospace
