Earth-pointing

adj

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Adjective
  1. 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."

  2. 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."

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"Data from Earth sensor assemblies (ESAs) often are used in the attitude determination (AD) for both spinning and Earth-pointing spacecraft."

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