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graveyard orbits

graveyard orbits is the plural of graveyard orbit.

Meaning of graveyard orbit

Noun

graveyard orbit (plural graveyard orbits)

  1. An orbit where spacecraft which have reached their end of life can be safely positioned to avoid colliding with other spacecraft or the Earth.

Questions about graveyard orbits

What is graveyard orbits the plural of?
Graveyard orbits is the plural of graveyard orbit.

Words near graveyard orbits in the dictionary

  1. gravewards
  2. graveyard
  3. graveyard of empires
  4. Graveyard of the Atlantic
  5. graveyard orbit
  6. graveyard orbits
  7. graveyard poetry
  8. graveyard shift
  9. graveyard shifter
  10. graveyard shifters
  11. graveyard shifts

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