Apogee kick motor Apogee kick motor An apogee kick motor (AKM) refers to a rocket motor that is regularly employed on artificial satellites to provide the final impulse to change the trajectory from the transfer orbit into its final (most commonly circular) orbit. For a satellite launched from the Earth, the rocket firing is done at the highest point of the transfer orbit, known as the apogee, thus giving the engine its name. An apogee kick motor is used, for example, for satellites launched into a geostationary orbit. As the vast majority of geostationary satellite launches are carried out from spaceports at a
Sort Sol Sort Sol Sort Sol is a pioneer rock band from Copenhagen, Denmark. The band was formed in 1977 as a punk rock outfit, originally under the name Sods (stylized as SODS). The name "Sort Sol" was taken in the early 1980s. It translates to English as "black sun" and is named after a nature phenomenon particular to Denmark, where huge bird flocks gather in the sky and appear to block out the sun. For reasons unknown, the Danish press often refers to their musical style as punk due to their origin, though nearly everything they have put out since 1980