It was illegal to assume a closed orbit around Jupiter, or to land on any of the moons.
For an orbital spaceflight, a spacecraft enters a closed orbit around the planetary body.
Here the stable limit cycle is shown in state space as a closed orbit (the ellipse).
A closed orbit has the shape of an ellipse.
Orbiting bodies in closed orbits repeat their paths after a constant period of time.
In all instances, a closed orbit will still intersect the perturbation point.
Here the central black hole's gravity was so strong that light itself curved in closed orbits.
"Locked in a closed orbit about a magnetic core?"
A closed orbit, or cycle, is the image of a closed trajectory.
A simple 1/r potential results in a closed Keplerian elliptical orbit.