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Define parking orbit?​

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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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An orbit of a spacecraft from which the spacecraft or another vehicle may be launched on a new trajectory.

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