equatorial orbit

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equatorial orbit [‚e·kwə′tȯr·ē·əl ′ȯr·bət]

(astronomy)

An orbit in the plane of the earth's equator.

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No references found			Officials with the fledging and anything-but-wealthy Italian space effort suggested that placing a seaborne launch system off the Kenyan coast could eliminate the cost of the "dogleg" maneuver necessary to put payloads into equatorial orbits from higher latitudes. The five satellites of San Marco by Eberhart, Jonathan / Science News Falcon 1, a two-stage, liquid oxygen/rocket-grade kerosene vehicle designed from the ground up by SpaceX, will place the RazakSAT satellite, equipped with a high resolution Medium-Sized Aperture Camera (MAC), into a near equatorial orbit. SpaceX and ATSB Announce New Launch Date for RazakSAT Satellite by Business Wire Falcon 1 will place RazakSAT, equipped with a high resolution Medium-Sized Aperture Camera (MAC), into a near equatorial orbit. SpaceX to Launch ATSB's RazakSAT by Business Wire			equatorial axis Equatorial Belt equatorial belt of calms equatorial bulge equatorial calms Equatorial Channel equatorial chart Equatorial Climate equatorial convergence zone equatorial coordinate system Equatorial Countercurrent Equatorial Countercurrents Equatorial Current Equatorial Currents equatorial cylindrical orthomorphic chart equatorial dry zone equatorial easterlies equatorial electrojet Equatorial Forest Zone equatorial front Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea Independence Day equatorial horizontal parallax Equatorial Islands Equatorial Mounting equatorial orbit equatorial plane Equatorial Plate equatorial projection Equatorial Race equatorial radius equatorial system equatorial telescope Equatorial Telescope Mounting equatorial tide equatorial trough Equatorial Undercurrent Equatorial Undercurrent of the Indian Ocean equatorial vortex equatorial wave equatorial westerlies Equel equerry eques equestrian Equestrian Circus equestrian sculpture Equestrian Sports equestrianism equiangular polygon equiangular spiral			Equatorial Geophysical Research Laboratory Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea Independence Day Equatorial Guinean Equatorial Guinean Equatorial Guinean ekwele Equatorial Guineans Equatorial Guineans Equatorial guiniea Equatorial guiniea Equatorial Guniea Equatorial Guniea equatorial horizontal parallax Equatorial Intermediate Current Equatorial Ionosphere Thermosphere System Equatorial Islands Equatorial Islands Equatorial Low Earth Orbit Equatorial Magnetosphere Laboratory Equatorial Mesoscale Experiment Equatorial mount Equatorial mount Equatorial mounting Equatorial mounting Equatorial mounting Equatorial mounting equatorial mountings equatorial mounts equatorial orbit Equatorial Pacific Equatorial Pacific Information Collection Equatorial Pacific Ocean Climate Studies equatorial plane equatorial plane equatorial plane Equatorial Plasma Bubble equatorial plate equatorial plate equatorial plate equatorial projection Equatorial Race equatorial radius Equatorial region Equatorial region Equatorial region Equatorial South America equatorial staphyloma equatorial system equatorial telescope equatorial telescope Equatorial Telescope Mounting equatorial telescopes equatorial telescopes Equatorial Temperature and Wind Anomaly equatorial tide equatorial trough Equatorial Undercurrent Equatorial Undercurrent Equatorial Undercurrent

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