In celestial mechanics, an orbit (also known as orbital revolution) is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star...

ORBit is a CORBA 2.4 compliant Object Request Broker (ORB). It features mature Ada, C, C++ and Python bindings, and less developed bindings for Perl,...

Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of 149.60 million km (92.96 million mi), or 8.317 light-minutes, in a counterclockwise direction as viewed...

A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less...

Look up orbital in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orbital may refer to: Atomic orbital Molecular orbital Hybrid orbital Orbit Earth orbit Orbit (anatomy)...

A geostationary orbit, also referred to as a geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO), is a circular geosynchronous orbit 35,786 km (22,236 mi) in altitude...

The orbital period (also revolution period) is the amount of time a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object. In astronomy...

value of 0 is a circular orbit, values between 0 and 1 form an elliptic orbit, 1 is a parabolic escape orbit (or capture orbit), and greater than 1 is...

A geocentric orbit, Earth-centered orbit, or Earth orbit involves any object orbiting Earth, such as the Moon or artificial satellites. In 1997, NASA estimated...

elliptic orbit or elliptical orbit is a Kepler orbit with an eccentricity of less than 1; this includes the special case of a circular orbit, with eccentricity...