- 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.
As in going below the horizon, for the technical definition, please follow this link to the U.S. Naval Observatory's Astronomical Applications.
Industry:Aerospace
Half the distance of an ellipse's maximum diameter, the distance from the center of the ellipse to one end.
Industry:Aerospace
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 planet, or of the galactic center, they are generally called spacecraft instead of satellites.
Industry:Aerospace
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 finer spatial resolution than is possible with conventional beam-scanning means.
Industry:Aerospace
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 a spacecraft.
Industry:Aerospace
The angular distance of a celestial object measured in hours, minutes, and seconds along the celestial equator eastward from the vernal equinox.
Industry:Aerospace
