Aposelene (Noun)
Meaning
Apoapsis in orbit around the moon.
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
Examples
- A spacecraft reached the apselene, or farthest point in its elliptical orbit, 405,500 kilometers from the Moon.
- When a lunar-orbiting spacecraft passes its apselene it slows down as the Moon's gravitational pull weakens.
- Because it spends most of its orbital period around apselene the communications array remains less visible to the spacecraft for the bulk of its orbital path.
- Engineers design their mission with considerations on an orbital craft spending half of the mission traveling away and half toward apselene around our natural satellite.
- Approaching its orbital apselene our reconnaissance craft suddenly picks up crucial photographs which couldn't have been shot anywhere closer.