BJU - Space and Earth Science - Chapter 8
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| show | applications satellites
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| show | capsule
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| show | Congreve rocket
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| A special space probe orbit that follows the earth around the sun at about the same distance from the sun as the earth. | show 🗑
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| An equatorial orbit that has a period of one 24-hour day; sometimes called a geostationary orbit. | show 🗑
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| A system of 24 satellites that provide latitude, longitude, and altitude positions to very accurate standards. A GPS receiver receives and analyzes signals from two or more different satellites to determine the position. | show 🗑
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| A 19th century military rocket that carried an explosive warhead in the nose, had 3 curved fins in the exhaust stream to impart a stabilizing spin, and had a greater range that the artillery of its day. | show 🗑
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| A saddle-shaped orbit around the point in space where the gravities of two massive objects, such as a planet and the sun, exactly balance each other. | show 🗑
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| The outermost boundary of the material influence of the solar system, where the pressure of the outgoing solar wind balances the pressure of incoming particles from interstellar space. | show 🗑
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| Acronym for intercontinental ballistic missile, a type of long range, rocket-powered weapon capable of crossing the distances between continents. | show 🗑
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| The ISS is a continuously manned orbital scientific and technological research outpost sponsored by 16 nations. It is 450 kilometers from earth. | show 🗑
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| show | Kuiper belt object
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| An orbital path relatively close to the earth (350-500 km above the earth). | show 🗑
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| show | microgravity
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| show | Newton's third law of motion
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| show | outer planets
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| An orbital path that takes an earth satellite over the poles during each orbit. | show 🗑
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| An instrumented, unmanned, expendable vehicle used to explore space. | show 🗑
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| The manned US space program established to land and briefly explore the moon. | show 🗑
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| show | Project Gemini
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| show | Project Mercury
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| An aerial vehicle or device propelled by the rapid emission of hot gases that are produced from combustion not requiring atmospheric oxygen. | show 🗑
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| show | satellite
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| A satellite that is designed mainly to acquire scientific information, such as an earth resources satellite or an orbiting telescope. | show 🗑
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| show | sounding
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| show | sounding rocket
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| A reusable manned space vehicle designed to carry heavy satellites, space probes, and equipment to Earth orbit. It also transports people and cargo for the construction and resupply of the International Space Station. | show 🗑
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| A habitable structure in Earth orbit from which astronomical observations and scientific research may be conducted. | show 🗑
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| A unit containing rocket engines, fuel, and/or instruments that is attached to other similar units to form a multi-stage rocket. The multiple stages are fired sequentially, each stage falls off when done to reduce the mass of the remaining rocket. | show 🗑
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| show | sun-synchronous orbit
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