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Kosmos 167 (474 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Typically, Soviet planetary missions were initially put into an Earth parking orbit as a launch platform with a rocket engine and attached probe. The probes

Galaxy 17 (282 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

replaced SBS-6 which was moved out of the geostationary orbit to a parking orbit in the Graveyard orbit. This took place on July 7, 2007. Galaxy 17 began

Zond 6 (761 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mission on November 10, 1968, from a parent satellite (68-101B) in Earth parking orbit. The spacecraft carried a biological payload of turtles, flies, and

Astra 1K (671 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

vehicle failed to function properly, leaving the satellite in an unusable parking orbit. Astra 1K was to be a European (Luxembourg-based) geostationary communications

Apollo 6 (3,480 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

burning the second and third stages longer, although the resulting parking orbit was more elliptical than planned. The damaged third-stage engine failed

Kosmos 1402 (1,022 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

low Earth orbit, and the reactor was designed to eject to a higher parking orbit at the end of the satellite's mission, or in the event of a mishap.

Discovery One (2,032 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Earth orbit via gravitational slingshot around Jupiter to Saturn and parking orbit around the moon Iapetus. Kubrick changed this to the simpler route from

EchoStar VII (757 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a 'deorbit' in the strict sense, as the satellite would remain in a parking orbit. However the term is used loosely to refer to satellite end-of-life

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (4,250 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

GOES-17 for some time, but was retired in early 2020 and moved to a parking orbit. GOES-15 was temporarily returned to operational status in August 2020

Proton-M (2,740 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Briz-M performs its first firing to achieve orbital injection into a parking orbit with 51.5° inclination, at 170 km to 230 km altitude (the Mission Planner's

Zond 5 (2,382 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

placing the spacecraft into a parking orbit of 191 by 219 kilometres (119 mi × 136 mi). Fifty-six minutes into the parking orbit the Block D fired a final

USA-246 (286 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

occurred at 08:10:00 UTC on 18 September 2013, placing the satellite in a parking orbit of 178 kilometers by 1,041 kilometers. A second burn placed the satellite

USA-235 (290 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

occurred at 18:24 UTC on 4 May 2012, first placing the satellite in a parking orbit of 185 kilometers by 905 kilometers. A second burn placed the satellite

USA-288 (320 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

occurred at 04:15 UTC on 17 October 2018, placing the satellite in a parking orbit of 176 kilometers by 485 kilometers. A second burn placed the satellite

Kosmos 111 (524 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

GMT via Molniya 8K78M s/n U15000-50 rocket from Site 31/6 into Earth parking orbit, but the Blok-L upper stage lost roll control and failed to fire the

OSCAR 4 (622 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cape Canaveral LC41 just one second behind schedule. From an initial parking orbit of 194 kilometres (121 mi), the Titan's Transtage boosted into a transfer

Soyuz-2-1v (582 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

will use a Volga upper stage to transfer the payload from an initial parking orbit to its final destination. The Volga is derived from the propulsion system

Luna 18 (310 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

uncrewed space mission of the Luna program. Luna 18 was placed in an Earth parking orbit after it was launched and was then sent towards the Moon. On 7 September

Luna 4 (407 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. After reaching an initial parking orbit of 167 by 182 kilometres (104 by 113 mi), the rocket's upper stage restarted

Venera 6 (479 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at the height of the atmosphere. Venera 6 was launched into an Earth parking orbit on January 10, 1969, at 05:51:52 UT and then from a Tyazheliy Sputnik

Luna 19 (371 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

instrumentation in a pressurized container. Luna 19 was launched into an Earth parking orbit on 28 September, of the year 1971 and, from this orbit, was sent toward

OV2-3 (898 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cape Canaveral LC41 just one second behind schedule. From an initial parking orbit of 194 kilometres (121 mi), the Titan's Transtage boosted into a transfer

Kosmos (satellite) (1,526 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Soviet Lunar and planetary missions were initially put into a low Earth parking orbit along with an upper stage, which would later burn for around four minutes

Luna 17 (696 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

rover onto the surface of the Moon. Luna 17 was launched from an Earth parking orbit towards the Moon and entered lunar orbit on 15 November 1970. The spacecraft

Expedition 29 (487 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Burbank (NASA). The spacecraft was placed into a 250-kilometre (160 mi) parking orbit, and docked successfully with the ISS at 5:24 am GMT on 16 November

AS-203 (841 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

amount of hydrogen remaining would approximate that of the Saturn V parking orbit. The tank was equipped with 88 sensors and two TV cameras to record

Lewis (satellite) (448 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

06:51:01 GMT on 23 August 1997, and Lewis was successfully placed into a parking orbit with an apogee of 134 kilometres (83 mi), a perigee of 124 kilometres

Mars 1M (630 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and, as a result, neither spacecraft achieved its initial geocentric parking orbit. Mars 1M No.2 reached an altitude of 120 km before reentry. Soviet premier

Saturn V (9,644 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

able to compensate by burning the remaining engines longer to achieve parking orbit. In the event of an abort requiring the destruction of the rocket, the

LES-3 (925 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cape Canaveral LC41 just one second behind schedule. From an initial parking orbit of 194 kilometres (121 mi), the Titan's Transtage boosted into a transfer

Ross–Fahroo lemma (559 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Constrained Trajectory Optimization of a Soft Lunar Landing From a Parking Orbit, S.M. Thesis, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute

LES-4 (877 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cape Canaveral LC41 just one second behind schedule. From an initial parking orbit of 194 kilometres (121 mi), the Titan's Transtage boosted into a transfer

Ranger 9 (894 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

performed nominally, injecting the Agena and Ranger 9 into an Earth parking orbit at 185-kilometre (115 mi) altitude. A 90-second Agena second burn put

Chrysler SERV (2,700 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

profiles were envisioned. "Mode A" missions flew SERV to a high-altitude parking orbit at 260 nmi (480 km) inclined at 55 degrees, just below the space station's

Mars 2 (1,463 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

second stage was ignited. The third stage engine blasted Mars 2 into parking orbit, then the Blok D upper stage sent Mars 2 on the trans-Mars trajectory

LISA Pathfinder (1,621 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spacecraft was first launched by Vega flight VV06 into an elliptical LEO parking orbit. From there it executed a short burn each time perigee was passed, slowly

Ranger 8 (1,126 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

performed nominally, injecting the Agena and Ranger 8 into an Earth parking orbit at 185 km altitude after launch. Fourteen minutes later a 90-second

Descent propulsion system (1,269 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

containing two crewmen, from a 60-nautical-mile (110 km) circular lunar parking orbit to an elliptical descent orbit with a pericynthion of 50,000 feet (15

Yinghuo-1 (1,268 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

these burns did not take place, stranding the two spacecraft in their parking orbit. Despite repeated efforts to contact the launcher and rectify the problem

Proton-K (887 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

valve caused excess fuel to collect in the Block DM main engine during the parking orbit coast phase after the first burn. The engine was destroyed.

Apollo Lunar Module (6,035 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

third stage of the Saturn V rocket. There it remained through Earth parking orbit and the trans-lunar injection (TLI) rocket burn to send the craft toward

Mir EO-2 (1,194 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

undocked from Kvant, as it was no longer needed, and it was placed in a parking orbit 41 km above Mir; over a year later it underwent uncontrolled reentry

Blok DM-03 (1,420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ignition; Blok DM-03 overfuelled leaving rocket too heavy to achieve parking orbit, reentered before stage 4 ignition 2L Proton-M 2013-07-02, 02:38:22 UTC

IXPE (1,979 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

equatorial orbit. Instead, the rocket needed to launch due east into a parking orbit and then perform a plane, or inclination, change once in space, as the

Ground-controlled interception (1,809 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

getting the aircraft into the air (and back), and then flying in a parking orbit until called for. When an interception mission started, the SAGE computers

First Lunar Outpost (2,026 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

save fuel, the LEV would make a direct landing rather than entering a parking orbit. Once the surface mission is complete, the vehicle would separate two

The Blue Marble (3,430 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mission, and about 1 hour 54 minutes after the spacecraft left its parking orbit around Earth to begin its trajectory to the Moon. Alternatively, Eric

List of Oko satellites (322 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1980 Launch failure; Blok 2BL failed to ignite, never left low Earth parking orbit Kosmos 1172 US-K 12 April 1980 20:18 Molniya-M/2BL Plesetsk 41/1 HEO

Defense Support Program (1,485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

placed the IUS upper stages and payload into a 188 km x 718 km x 28.6° parking orbit. The first stage on the IUS burned at 18:14 GMT and put the second stage

N1 (rocket) (7,808 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

stages in total: the first three (N1) for insertion into a low Earth parking orbit, and another two (L3) for translunar injection and lunar orbit insertion

Mariner 4 (3,856 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

14:28:14 to 14:30:38. The initial burn put the spacecraft into an Earth parking orbit and the second burn from 15:02:53 to 15:04:28 injected the craft into

Ares V (2,590 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

be used to steer the Altair lunar lander into its initial low Earth "parking" orbit for later retrieval by the Orion spacecraft, and then would propel both

Apollo 8 (11,349 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

would begin with a nominal 100-nautical-mile (185.2 km) circular Earth parking orbit. Apollo 8 was launched into an initial orbit with an apogee of 99.99

H-II Transfer Vehicle (2,454 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Dragon 1 approach the ISS in stages, and once they reach their closest parking orbit to the ISS, crew grapple them using the robotic arm Canadarm2 and berth

DIDO (software) (1,789 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

Constrained Trajectory Optimization of a Soft Lunar Landing From a Parking Orbit, S.M. Thesis, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute

List of objects at Lagrange points (2,503 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mission ended on 23 October 2013; Planck has been moved to a heliocentric parking orbit. Chang'e 2 Sun–Earth L2 CNSA Arrived in August 2011 after completing

Rocket Lab Electron (4,016 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

LC-1, deploying a small satellite and its kick stage into a 400 km parking orbit. In July 2020, the thirteenth Electron rocket launch failed with customer

2011 in spaceflight (3,486 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an attitude control system malfunction, leaving the spacecraft in a parking orbit. Later that same day, a Long March 2C launched from Jiuquan carrying

Soyuz TM-23 (3,327 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

M-32 was undocked on August 18 under automatic control and moved to a parking orbit. It would remain until the departure of Soyuz TM-23 with the homeward-bound

Journey of Apollo 15 to the Moon (2,638 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Eleven minutes and 34 seconds after launch the crew were in their Earth parking orbit 92.5 by 91.5 nm (171.3 by 169.5 km). An orbit of this height is not

2010 in spaceflight (4,563 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fuelled incorrectly, resulting in the rocket being too heavy to reach its parking orbit. The fourth failure occurred on 25 December 2010, when a GSLV Mk.I exploded

Microwave landing system (2,213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

whatever direction they were already flying in, as opposed to flying to a parking orbit before "capturing" the ILS signal. This was particularly valuable at

Apollo 4 (5,424 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

CSM into a nearly circular 190-kilometer (100 nmi) orbit, a nominal parking orbit that would be used on the lunar missions. After two orbits, in a simulation

Lucy (spacecraft) (4,345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 launch vehicle into a stable parking orbit. During the next hour, the second stage reignited to place Lucy on an

List of USA satellites (608 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1989-09-06 ELINT Titan 23G Singleton/SBWASS-R Failed Failed to leave parking orbit due to on-board propulsion malfunction 46 USA-46 1989-09-25 Communications

John Houbolt (1,785 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

2014. Reed Birney at IMDb James R. Hansen. "Michael's Paper on a "Parking Orbit"". Archived from the original on January 14, 2009. "3 Missions, Modes

Lunar Gateway (7,246 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lander could be refueled from a depot on the lunar surface and left in a parking orbit between missions without the need for a big, complex space station"

I. Michael Ross (1,899 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Constrained Trajectory Optimization of a Soft Lunar Landing From a Parking Orbit, S.M. Thesis, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute

2002 in spaceflight (993 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

stage malfunction resulted in satellite being placed into an unusable parking orbit. Intentionally de-orbited. 28 November 06:07 Kosmos-3M Plesetsk Site

Apollo 9 (6,717 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

stage cut out at 00:11:04.7 into the mission, Apollo 9 had entered a parking orbit of 102.3 by 103.9 miles (164.6 by 167.2 km). The crew began their first

International Lunar Resources Exploration Concept (1,652 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hydrogen and lunar-made oxygen. The entire lander would lift into a lunar parking orbit and eventually power itself onto a return trajectory. The crew capsule

List of Gold Digger characters (2,933 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sister Brit, he transported them back to Earth. He then settled into a parking orbit over the dark side of the Moon to sort things out. D'Bra, or Debra as

Ariane 5 (6,337 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to deploy the first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) into a circular parking orbit, followed by a third burn after ATV deployment to de-orbit the stage

Atlas V (8,805 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

multiple in-space starts, making possible insertion into low Earth parking orbit, followed by a coast period and then insertion into GTO. A subsequent

Exploration of Mars (11,158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

were unable to develop enough pressure to commence ignition, so Earth parking orbit was not achieved. The spacecraft reached an altitude of 120 km before

United Launch Alliance (12,482 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket into a stable parking orbit. During the next hour, the second stage reignited to place Lucy on an

Tianwen-1 (7,235 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

propulsion unit failed to boost the Mars-bound stack from its initial Earth parking orbit and the combined multinational spacecraft and experiments eventually

November 1969 (7,673 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ship achieved Earth orbit. A little more than an hour after reaching parking orbit, Apollo 12 fired its third stage at 2:09 to begin its four-day travel

Chinese space program (20,462 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

separation of landing module at 4 am. The orbiter then returned to the parking orbit while the lander moved toward Mars atmosphere. Three hours later, the

Cluster II (spacecraft) (12,683 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

of the replacement Cluster II spacecraft, (Salsa and Samba) into a parking orbit from where they maneuvered under their own power into a 19,000 by 119

October 1962 (8,463 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

earth. When the engines were reignited in order to take the probe from parking orbit toward Mars, the satellite exploded, and debris fell to earth for the

Spacecraft flight dynamics (6,581 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

direct injection to departure trajectory, but first put into a low Earth parking orbit; this allows the flexibility of a bigger launch window and more time

Saga of Pliocene Exile (6,060 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spacecraft captain, dies when he places an old Tanu spaceship into a parking orbit around the Earth – perhaps giving rise to the legend of the eternally

History of the Deep Space Network (3,767 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

direct-ascent trajectory to the Moon, rather than insertion from a parking orbit. Translunar injection would then be before spacecraft rise at DSS 51