Retrograde Orbit

A retrograde orbit is when a spacecraft orbits a celestial body in the polar opposite of the direction that the celestial body rotates.

For instance, the Orion spacecraft (a part of ARTEMIS I) may use the gravitational push it experiences as it approaches the moon to enter a so-called "far retrograde ....

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