lunar orbit

collocation in English

meaningsoflunarandorbit

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lunar
adjective
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/ˈluː.nər/us
/ˈluː.nɚ/
of or relating to ...
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orbit
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɔː.bɪt/us
/ˈɔːr.bɪt/
the curved path through which objects in space move around a planet ...
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(Definition oflunarandorbitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It would be a ten to fourteen day mission with a crew of four astronauts who would spend four days inlunarorbit.
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It was launched into an ellipticallunarorbit.
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From there, the spacecraft would use its on-board propulsion to travel tolunarorbitvia a weak stability boundary transfer.
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His message appeared to sum up the feelings that all three crewmen had from their vantage point inlunarorbit.
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Launched in 1998, it spent 1 years inlunarorbit.
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Another precession is the turning oflunarorbit, the orientation oflunarorbitinclination.
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Three periodicities related tolunarorbit, the synodic month, the draconic month, and the anomalistic month coincide each saros cycle.
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Twenty-six separate scientific experiments were conducted both inlunarorbitand during cislunar coast.
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The number of solar orbits during one turn oflunarorbitequals the period of orbit divided by this difference minus one.
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He holds the record of more time spent inlunarorbit: six days and four hours (148 hours).
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The projectile enterslunarorbit, rather than landing on the moon as originally planned.
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The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and injected into an elliptical near polar highlunarorbitfor data acquisition.
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The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and injected into an elliptical near-equatoriallunarorbitfor data acquisition after 92.5 hours flight time.
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The ellipticity of thelunarorbitgives rise to a lunar monthly tidal constituent.
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Of particular importance was developing the expertise to perform flight operations inlunarorbit.
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Mattingly spent 126 hours and 64 revolutions inlunarorbit.
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The presentation also forecast flights tolunarorbitwithin 30 years and visits to the lunar surface within 50 years.
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It was only 13 hours until they would be inlunarorbit.
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After completion of the mission there, a part of it returns tolunarorbitand conducts a rendezvous with the main spacecraft.
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