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
Apogee of Pedro II of Brazil "national suicide." The accusation was aired "that abolition was his personal desire and not that of the nation." Eventually, the nomination of the abolitionist and conservative Viscount of Rio Branco as President of the Council of Ministers made possible the passage of the bill, which was enacted as the Law of Free Birth on 28 September 1871, under which all children born of slave women after that date would be considered free. Footnotes Bibliography Apogee of Pedro II of Brazil The Apogee of Pedro II of Brazil refers to the decade from 1870–1881 during which Emperor Pedro II, and Brazil