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The Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research.
One of three DSN tracking sites at Goldstone, California; Madrid, Spain; and Canberra, Australia; spaced about equally around the Earth for continuous tracking of deep-space vehicles.
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The effect on frequency imposed by relative motion between transmitter and receiver. See Chapter 6.
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The point at which an orbit crosses a reference plane (such as a planet's equatorial plane or the ecliptic plane) going south.
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Mass per unit volume. For example, the density of water can be stated as 1 gram/cm3.
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The measure of a celestial body's apparent height above or below the celestial equator.
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Db, an expression of ratio (see db, above). One tenth of a Bel. See NIST website for further definition.
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A configuration in which two celestial bodies have their least apparent separation.
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