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transfer orbit

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noun

  1. the flight path of a space vehicle moving from a nearly circular orbit to one with different parameters.

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A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 3:11 p.m. carrying the Merah Putih 2 telecommunications satellite for Telkom Indonesia to a geosynchronous transfer orbit.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024

ET to send the Tesla into what's called a Hohmann transfer orbit.

From National Geographic • Feb. 6, 2018

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