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  2. Precision approach path indicator - Wikipedia

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    It consists of two units with the inner unit located 10 metres (33 ft) from the runway edge. [1] The PAPI should be located on the left-hand side of the runway at right angles to the runway center line, although can be located on the right-hand side of the runway if required. The red lights are always on the side closest to the runway.

  3. Kármán line - Wikipedia

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    Earth's atmosphere photographed from the International Space Station.The orange and green line of airglow is at roughly the altitude of the Kármán line. [1]The Kármán line (or von Kármán line / v ɒ n ˈ k ɑːr m ɑː n /) [2] is a conventional definition of the edge of space.

  4. Hubble's law - Wikipedia

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    Gamma ray attenuation due to extragalactic light. Independent of the cosmic distance ladder and the cosmic microwave background. 2019-03-18 74.03 ± 1.42: Hubble Space Telescope [71] Precision HST photometry of Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) reduce the uncertainty in the distance to the LMC from 2.5% to 1.3%.

  5. Geodesics in general relativity - Wikipedia

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    This equation simply means that all test particles at a particular place and time will have the same acceleration, which is a well-known feature of Newtonian gravity. For example, everything floating around in the International Space Station will undergo roughly the same acceleration due to gravity.

  6. Gravitational lens - Wikipedia

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    In general relativity, light follows the curvature of spacetime, hence when light passes around a massive object, it is bent. This means that the light from an object on the other side will be bent towards an observer's eye, just like an ordinary lens. In general relativity the path of light depends on the shape of space (i.e. the metric).

  7. Spacecraft flight dynamics - Wikipedia

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    This is defined as the distance from a satellite at which its gravitational pull on a spacecraft equals that of its central body, which is = /, where D is the mean distance from the satellite to the central body, and m c and m s are the masses of the central body and satellite, respectively. This value is approximately 66,300 kilometers (35,800 ...

  8. World line - Wikipedia

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    light-like curves, having at each point the speed of light. They form a cone in spacetime, dividing it into two parts. They form a cone in spacetime, dividing it into two parts. The cone is three-dimensional in spacetime, appears as a line in drawings with two dimensions suppressed, and as a cone in drawings with one spatial dimension suppressed.

  9. Flyby (spaceflight) - Wikipedia

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    Imagery collected by Voyager 2 of Ganymede during its flyby of the Jovian system Galileo spacecraft encounters asteroid 243 Ida. A flyby (/ ˈ f l aɪ b aɪ /) is a spaceflight operation in which a spacecraft passes in proximity to another body, usually a target of its space exploration mission and/or a source of a gravity assist (also called swing-by) to impel it towards another target. [1]