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Orbital mechanics (also called astrodynamics) is the application of ballistics and celestial mechanics to the practical problems concerning the motion of rockets and other spacecraft on an orbital or …
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Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, is a private space exploration company. It was the world's first privately held company to successfully launch a cargo mission into space , cargo…
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Questions about the science or exploration of the planet Mars. See the tag wiki for related tags.
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Questions regarding the boosters or thrusters used to propel man-made objects. For rockets firing opposite the primaries, see [retrorockets]. See wiki for other related tags.
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Questions regarding the takeoff or the liftoff phase of the flight of a rocket and the set of activities required for preparation of the launch vehicle leading to it.
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Questions about the ISS (International Space Station), a habitable man-made low Earth orbit satellite whose first component was launched in 1998 and used to conduct experiments for a wide variety of r…
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Questions about objects in orbit which are human made, such as communications and GPS satellites, orbital observatories and space stations, and other man-made object in permanent or semi-permanent orb…
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Questions about Earth's Moon. Also for questions about spacecraft, manned missions, potential missions, etc. related to Earth's Moon.
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Questions pertaining to activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a United States government agency that deals with space exploration and research.
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NASA's Apollo program was a 17-mission program that focused on landing a human on the lunar surface. The program was the third human spaceflight by NASA, after Mercury and Gemini.
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Crewed spaceflight (also referred to as human spaceflight or manned spaceflight) is space travel with a crew aboard the spacecraft. When a spacecraft is crewed, it can be operated directly, as opposed…
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Questions regarding the Falcon launch vehicle developed by SpaceX for medium payloads (15,000 lbs) to LEO and GEO (via GTO, second stage cannot inject into GEO direct)
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Questions regarding the mechanics or attributes of objects falling 'around' other objects, thereby orbiting them.
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The Space Shuttle was a crewed, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft operated by NASA from 1981 to 2011.
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Questions pertaining to the history of space exploration. Includes how current things will be viewed historically from the future (e.g. Apollo Moon landing sites 100 years from now)
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Systems for propelling a spacecraft from one place to another, such as rockets.
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Questions regarding the craft that house humans or equipment during space exploration.
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Questions regarding equipment used to propel a spacecraft or a rocket. Questions about attitude control jets should be tagged "attitude".
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Questions related to the movement of human-made objects as they enter atmosphere of Earth or other planetary bodies with atmospheres from space after being successfully launched.
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Questions about rocket oxidizer, propellant, reactive mass, or other fuels used in spacecraft or rockets.
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Questions regarding the design or design process for a propulsion system.
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Questions regarding Low Earth Orbit or LEO, which refers to orbits at an altitude between approximately 160 kilometers / 100 miles and 2,000 kilometers / 1,200 miles.
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In spaceflight, an orbital maneuver is the use of propulsion systems to change the orbit of a spacecraft.
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Questions regarding information transfer between spacecraft, and between spacecraft and Earth.
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Questions regarding the specific part of flights, during which a spacecraft touches down on the solid ground of a celestial body.
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Questions regarding SpaceX's Starship, formerly the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) upper stage or BFS
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How physics applies to a particular activity in space or to getting to and from space.
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Questions about how space vehicles and related hardware are designed. See also [structural-design] and [engine-design].
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Questions regarding the attractive force present between two masses. If about research in artificial gravity (i.e. manmade substitutes for gravity), please use the artificial-gravity tag.
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Questions regarding an envelope of gasses surrounding a celestial body held in place by the body's gravity.
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The study of planets, asteroids, comets, etc, including weather, geology, composition, etc. This tag should be used when the focus of the question is on the the science of a non-Earth non-star natural…
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Questions about alternative designs the asker has thought of, such as "why was X built this way and not this way"
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Questions which ask for an object in a photograph or other media to be identified and/or have its function described.
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Mission design is the process of designing a space mission to fulfill a particular objective.
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Questions regarding the path that a spacecraft will take due to forces acting on the spacecraft, such as gravitational or radiation from the sun.
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Questions regarding people present on spacecraft or space stations.
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