"Orbit" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 轨道 | guǐ dào | track (for trains etc) / orbit (of a satellite) / (fig.) a person's established path in life / desired trajectory (of a business or other endeavor) / (audio engineering) track / (quantum mechanics) orbital |   |
| 盘旋 | pán xuán | to spiral / to circle / to go around / to hover / to orbit | |
| 轨迹 | guǐ jì | locus / orbit / trajectory / track | |
| 绕行 | rào xíng | to take a circular (or circuitous) route / to do a circuit / (of a planet) to orbit / (of a sailor) to circumnavigate / to take a detour / to bypass | |
| 人球轨道 | rén qiú guǐ dào | orbit (in -) | |
| 圆轨道 | yuán guǐ dào | circular orbit (in astronomy and in astronautics) | |
| 地球轨道 | dì qiú guǐ dào | Earth orbit (orbit of a satellite around the Earth) / Earth's orbit (orbit of the Earth around the Sun) | |
| 月孛 | yuè bèi | (ancient Chinese astrology) Yuebei, a heavenly body postulated to exist at the apogee of the Moon's orbit, hindering the Moon's progress | |
| 月径 | yuè jìng | moonlit path / diameter of the moon / diameter of the moon's orbit | |
| 绕地 | rào dì | to orbit the earth | |
| 罗睺 | luó hóu | the intersection of the Moon's orbit with the ecliptic in Vedic astronomy (Sanskrit rahu) | |
| 近日点 | jìn rì diǎn | perihelion, the nearest point of a planet in elliptic orbit to the sun / lower apsis | |
| 送上轨道 | sòng shàng guǐ dào | to send into orbit | |
| 黄白交点 | huáng bái jiāo diǎn | ecliptic line / intersection of the ecliptic with the moon's orbit plane | |
| 地球同步轨道 | dì qiú tóng bù guǐ dào | geosynchronous orbit / geosynchronous Earth orbit | |
| 极轨道 | jí guǐ dào | polar orbit | |
| 远日点 | yuǎn rì diǎn | aphelion, the furthest point of a planet in elliptic orbit to the sun / opposite: perihelion 近日點|近日点[jin4 ri4 dian3] / higher apsis | |
| 天平动点轨道 | tiān píng dòng diǎn guǐ dào | libration orbit | |
| 轨道倾角 | guǐ dào qīng jué | orbit inclination / orbital inclination | |
| 降低轨道 | orbit lowering | | |
| 低地球轨道 | low Earth orbit / low orbit / low-altitude orbit | | |
| 高轨道 | gāo guǐ dào | high orbit / high altitude orbit | |
| 姿态和轨道控制 | attitude and orbit control | | |
| 顺行轨道 | direct orbit | | |
| 克拉克轨道 | kè lā kè guǐ dào | Clarke orbit | |
| 入轨 | rù guǐ | to enter orbit | |
| 射入轨道，入轨 | orbit injection | | |
| 日心轨道 | rì xīn guǐ dào | heliocentric orbit | |
| 受摄轨道 | shòu shè guǐ dào | disturbed orbit / perturbed orbit | |
| 各国利用地球静止轨道所应遵守的原则 | Principles governing the activities of States in the utilization of the geostationary orbit | | |
| 弃星轨道 | qì xīng guǐ dào | graveyard orbit / disposal orbit | |
| 转移轨道 | transfer orbit | | |
| 停泊轨道 | tíng bó guǐ dào | parking orbit | |
| 漂移轨道 | drift orbit | | |
| 轨道圆化 | guǐ dào yuán huà | orbit circularization | |
| 轨道漂移 | orbit drift | | |
| 逆行轨道 | retrograde orbit | | |
| 开普勒轨道，人造卫星轨道 | keplerian orbit / unperturbed orbit / undisturbed orbit | | |
| 太阳同步轨道 | tài yáng tòng bù guǐ dào | heliosynchronous orbit / sun-synchronous orbit | |
| 赤道轨道 | chì dào guǐ dào | equatorial orbit | |
| 晕轨道 | halo orbit | | |
| 轨道衰变 | orbit decay / orbital decay | | |
| 晨昏轨道 | chén hūn guǐ dào | dawn orbit / dusk orbit | |
| 大偏心率轨道 | highly eccentric orbit | | |
| 中等地球轨道 | medium Earth orbit | | |
| 同步卫星轨道 | tòng bù wèi xīng guǐ dào | synchronous orbit | |
| 地球静止轨道一般原则草桉 | Draft General Principles Governing the Geostationary Orbit | | |
| 对地静止转移轨道 | geostationary transfer orbit | | |
| 地球静止轨道专家组 | Expert Group on Geostationary Orbit | | |
| 静止轨道激光同步 | jìng zhǐ guǐ dào jī guāng tòng bù | Laser Synchronization from Stationary Orbit | |
| 足够高的轨道 | sufficiently high orbit | | |
| 整数轨道 | integer orbit | | |
| 近地轨道 | jìn dì guǐ dào | low Earth orbit (LEO) | |
