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parking orbit definition

☆ parking orbit

a temporary orbit of an artificial satellite or spacecraft around the earth, moon, etc., prior to carrying out a further maneuver

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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