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Apoapsis
Apoapsis meaning
The point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum.
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A payload released at this point would go into a highly eccentric elliptical orbit, staying just barely clear from atmospheric reentry, with the periapsis at the same altitude as LEO and the apoapsis at the release height.
At periapsis: AU At apoapsis: AU The leisurely orbit of the pair has made it difficult to pin down their respective masses, and the accuracy of these values remain somewhat controversial.
Its orbit around Jupiter was very loosely bound, with a period of about 2 years and an apoapsis (the point in the orbit farthest from the planet) of convert.
The point farthest from the attracting body is called the apoapsis.