Word.ws English Dictionary

Earth-pointing

Earth-pointing adjective: of a frame of reference, describing the orientation of a spacecraft relative to Earth.

Adjective

Earth-pointing

  1. Of a frame of reference, describing the orientation of a spacecraft relative to Earth.
    • Data from Earth sensor assemblies (ESAs) often are used in the attitude determination (AD) for both spinning and Earth-pointing spacecraft.1995, J. Keat, M. Challa, D. Tracewell, K. Galal, “Earth Horizon Modeling and Application to Static Earth Sensors on TRMM Spacecraft”, in Kathy R. Hartman, editor, Flight mechanics estimation theory...
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Earth, pointing.
    • Communication from Earth, on channels E1 and E2, is received by the larger Earth-pointing antenna on the Ka band up link frequency.1989, Deborah M. Badi, Jeffery T. Farmer, Paul A. Garn, Gary L. Martin, Coneceptual Design of a Synchronous Mars Telecommunications Satellite, page 10

Questions about Earth-pointing

What does Earth-pointing mean?
Earth-pointing means of a frame of reference, describing the orientation of a spacecraft relative to Earth.
What part of speech is Earth-pointing?
Earth-pointing is an adjective.

Words near Earth-pointing in the dictionary

  1. earth-moving
  2. Earth-normal
  3. earth-nut
  4. earth-pig
  5. earth-pigs
  6. Earth-pointing
  7. earth-scraper
  8. earth-scrapers
  9. earth-shattering
  10. earth-shine
  11. earth-ship

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Earth-pointing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Earth-pointing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/earth-pointing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.