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Articles related to orbits
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Orbits
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- Box
- Capture
- Circular
- Elliptical / Highly elliptical
- Escape
- Graveyard
- Hyperbolic trajectory
- Inclined / Non-inclined
- Osculating
- Parabolic trajectory
- Parking
- Synchronous
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| Geocentric |
- Geosynchronous
- Geostationary
- Sun-synchronous
- Low Earth
- Medium Earth
- High Earth
- Molniya
- Near-equatorial
- Orbit of the Moon
- Polar
- Tundra
- Two-line elements
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| About other points |
- Areosynchronous
- Areostationary
- Halo
- Lissajous
- Lunar
- Heliocentric
- Heliosynchronous
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Parameters
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| Shape/Size |
- Eccentricity
- Semi-major axis
- Semi-minor axis
- Apsides
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| Orientation |
- Inclination
- Longitude of the ascending node
- Argument of periapsis
- Longitude of the periapsis
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| Position |
- Mean anomaly
- True anomaly
- Eccentric anomaly
- Mean longitude
- True longitude
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| Variation |
- Orbital period
- Mean motion
- Orbital speed
- Epoch
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Maneuvers
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- Collision avoidance (spacecraft)
- Delta-v
- Delta-v budget
- Bi-elliptic transfer
- Geostationary transfer
- Gravity assist
- Gravity turn
- Hohmann transfer
- Low energy transfer
- Oberth effect
- Inclination change
- Phasing
- Rocket equation
- Rendezvous
- Transposition, docking, and extraction
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Other orbital mechanics topics
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- Celestial coordinate system
- Characteristic energy
- Ephemeris
- Equatorial coordinate system
- Ground track
- Hill sphere
- Interplanetary Transport Network
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- Lagrangian point
- n-body problem
- Orbit equation
- Orbital state vectors
- Perturbation
- Retrograde motion
- Specific orbital energy
- Specific relative angular momentum
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