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
Word of the year (Norway) to marches held in Oslo and other places in Norway following the 2011 terror attacks. Other notable words of the year also related to the terror attacks: "kontrajihadisme" () and "ytringsansvar" (). Other notable words of the year were "gjeldskrise" () and "eurokrise" () referring to the situation in Europe, while "smørkrise" () referred to the Norwegian butter crisis at the end of the year. "Jasminrevolusjon" () also received mention. "Nave" (verb) (and the noun "naving") was named word of the year. The word refers to living on some kind of pension or welfare from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare