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Michael Kaplan. Abbas Salim. Products. Robotic lunar landers and rovers. Website. orbitbeyond .com. Orbit Beyond, Inc ., usually stylized as ORBITBeyond, is an aerospace company that builds technologies for lunar exploration. Its products include configurable delivery lunar landers with a payload capacity of up to 300 kg (660 lb), and rovers. [3]
Webb operates in a halo orbit, circling around a point in space known as the Sun–Earth L 2 Lagrange point, approximately 1,500,000 km (930,000 mi) beyond Earth's orbit around the Sun. Its actual position varies between about 250,000 and 832,000 km (155,000–517,000 mi) from L 2 as it orbits, keeping it out of both Earth and Moon's shadow.
NASA.gov/commercial-lunar-payload-services. Commercial Lunar Payload Services ( CLPS) is a NASA program to hire companies to send small robotic landers and rovers to the Moon. Most landing sites are near the lunar south pole [1] [2] where they will scout for lunar resources, test in situ resource utilization (ISRU) concepts, and perform lunar ...
There are two types of orbits: closed (periodic) orbits, and open (escape) orbits. Circular and elliptical orbits are closed. Parabolic and hyperbolic orbits are open. Radial orbits can be either open or closed. Circular orbit: An orbit that has an eccentricity of 0 and whose path traces a circle.
Mars-crosser asteroid. Near-Earth asteroids in Main Asteroid Belt. 2201 Oljato. 2.172. Apollo asteroid, Venus-crosser asteroid, Mars-crosser asteroid. 4486 Mithra. 2.204. Apollo asteroid, Mars-crosser asteroid.
The Lunar Gateway, or simply Gateway, is a space station which Artemis program participants plan to assemble in an orbit near the Moon. The Gateway is intended to serve as a communication hub, science laboratory, and habitation module for astronauts. It is a multinational collaborative project: participants include NASA, the European Space ...
BioSentinel. BioSentinel is a lowcost CubeSat spacecraft on a astrobiology mission that will use budding yeast to detect, measure, and compare the impact of deep space radiation on DNA repair over long time beyond low Earth orbit. [1] [3] Selected in 2013 for a 2022 launch, the spacecraft will operate in the deep space radiation environment ...
A geosynchronous orbit (sometimes abbreviated GSO) is an Earth-centered orbit with an orbital period that matches Earth's rotation on its axis, 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds (one sidereal day ). The synchronization of rotation and orbital period means that, for an observer on Earth's surface, an object in geosynchronous orbit returns to ...