Terminology
Fun Facts
Atmosphere
Orbits
COES
100

A body that orbits another body

What is a satellite?

100

The amount of fuel remaining on Apollo 11's landing rockets

What is 12 seconds?

100

What do we call the the pressure atmosphere in space?

What is a vacuum?

100

An satellite in orbit does is not in this gravity situation

What is 0-G?

100

The length between the foci of the orbit

What is the semi-major axis?
200

any object that uses a rocket engine

What is a rocket?

200

The planet on which a day is longer than a year

What is Venus?

200
Has particles, when typically it's thought that they don't have particles

What is a vacuum?

200

This force keeps an orbit moving

What is gravity?

200

The skinnyness of the orbit

What is the eccentricity?

300

a trajectory around another body that can be maintained due to gravity

What is an orbit?

300

A NASA spacesuit cost

What is 12 million?
300

Space is usually considered to be this many km off the surface of earth

What is 100?

300

An orbit is likened to what part of skydiving?

What is freefall?

300

The angle between the ECI and the orbit

What is the inclination?

400

An element found diatomically in high density environments, degrades spacecraft

What is atomic Oxygen?

400
The number of earths that fit in the sun

What is 1.3 million?

400

The earth protects humans from radiation in this way

What is the magnetic field?
400

This law says that the rate of change of momentum is the applied force

What is Newton's second law?

400
The angle which describes where the satellite is relative to its orbit

What is True Anomaly?

500

A system that determines attitude and controls it

What is ADC?

500

The reason humans in space age slower than humans on earth

What is relativity?

500

This is an example of a charged particle (electrons not allowed)

What is muon, pion, ion, ect?

500

For earth mu has a value of this number in m^2/s^2

3.9*10^14

500

The location that the orbit intersects with the ECI plane

What is the RAAN?

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