Apogee

The launch of the satellite marked the apogee of the space program.

The satellite is at its apogee.

When a satellite is at its apogee, it is as far as it gets from Earth.

Europa is at its apogee.

When a satellite is at its apogee, it is as far as it gets from the body it orbits.

Conjunctions of I and II [Io and Europa] occur when they are near perigee and apogee respectively; conjunctions of II and III [Europa and Ganymede] occur when II [Europa] is near perigee.

The resolution of the images obtained by this American probe [Messenger] will depend on its altitude [above Mercury] at any one time: about ten meters at perigee (200km altitude), but only one 1 km at apogee (15000km).

[Nereid’s] apogee—farthest point from Neptune—is five times the distance of its perigee—its closest point.

Another manifestation, significantly reaching its apogee in the midst of Antonine virtues, was the growing popularity of adoxographical exercises. Mock panegyrics were dashed off, not just by sardonic intellectuals such as Lucian, but also by trained courtiers and polished encomiasts of the stamp of [Marcus Cornelius] Fronto.

The cult of the chief executive reached its apogee in the nineteen-nineties, a period when C.E.O.s seemed not so much to serve their companies as to embody them.