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  1. How did you come up with the orbital payload capacity figure for China? Because that number seems to be atleast 50% more than the mass China actually launched.

  2. Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    |Fewer Letters|More Letters|
    |——-|———|—|
    |ETOV|Earth To Orbit Vehicle (common parlance: “rocket”)|
    |[GTO](/r/Space/comments/1qajetk/stub/nz4izws “Last usage”)|[Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit](http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/20140116-how-to-get-a-satellite-to-gto.html)|
    |[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1qajetk/stub/nz4izws “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
    | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
    |[LV](/r/Space/comments/1qajetk/stub/nz4izws “Last usage”)|Launch Vehicle (common parlance: “rocket”), see ETOV|

    |Jargon|Definition|
    |——-|———|—|
    |[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1qajetk/stub/nz4bdy4 “Last usage”)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
    |[perigee](/r/Space/comments/1qajetk/stub/nz4azwe “Last usage”)|Lowest point in an elliptical orbit around the Earth (when the orbiter is fastest)|

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