earth-pointing
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a frame of reference, describing the orientation of a spacecraft relative to Earth.
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Earth, pointing.
Example Sentences
- "Data from Earth sensor assemblies (ESAs) often are used in the attitude determination (AD) for both spinning and Earth-pointing spacecraft."
- "Communication from Earth, on channels E1 and E2, is received by the larger Earth-pointing antenna on the Ka band up link frequency."