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What is parking orbit?​

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A temporary orbit in which a spacecraft awaits the next phase of its mission .

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A parking orbit is a temporary orbit used during the launch of a spacecraft. A launch vehicle boosts into the parking orbit, then coasts for a while, then fires again to enter the final desired trajectory.

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