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  2. Orbital decay - Wikipedia

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    Orbital decay is a gradual decrease of the distance between two orbiting bodies at their closest approach (the periapsis) over many orbital periods. These orbiting bodies can be a planet and its satellite , a star and any object orbiting it, or components of any binary system .

  3. ZTF J153932.16+502738.8 - Wikipedia

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    The orbital period is decreasing at 2.373 × 10 −11 seconds per second giving a characteristic timescale of 210,000 years. [1] This decay is mostly due to the emission of gravitational waves, however 7% of the decay could be due to tidal losses. [1] The decay is predicted to go for 130,000 years when the orbital period should reach 5 minutes.

  4. UAH satellite temperature dataset - Wikipedia

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    The sensors deteriorate over time, and corrections are necessary for satellite drift and orbital decay. Particularly large differences between reconstructed temperature series occur at the few times when there is little temporal overlap between successive satellites, making intercalibration difficult.

  5. Hulse–Taylor pulsar - Wikipedia

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    [2] [10] [11] [12] The ratio of observed to predicted rate of orbital decay is calculated to be 0.997 ± 0.002. [12] The total power of the gravitational waves emitted by this system presently is calculated to be 7.35 × 10 24 watts. For comparison, this is 1.9% of the power radiated in light by the Sun.

  6. Simplified perturbations models - Wikipedia

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    Simplified Deep Space Perturbations (SDP) models apply to objects with an orbital period greater than 225 minutes, which corresponds to an altitude of 5,877.5 km, assuming a circular orbit. [ 3 ] The SGP4 and SDP4 models were published along with sample code in FORTRAN IV in 1988 with refinements over the original model to handle the larger ...

  7. Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations - Wikipedia

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    The minimum orbital altitude is determined by the estimated time it would take for the fission products to decay to the radioactivity level present at launch. In the case of the DRACO reactor, that is about 300 years, which requires an orbit above about 700 km if the orbital decay time is to exceed that value. [24]

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  9. Kessler syndrome - Wikipedia

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    To improve tracking, NORAD employee John Gabbard kept a separate database. Studying the explosions, Gabbard developed a technique for predicting the orbital paths of their products, and Gabbard diagrams (or plots) are now widely used. These studies were used to improve the modeling of orbital evolution and decay. [9]