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injection

1. (a) The process of putting an artificial satellite into orbit. (b) The time of such action.
   
   Injection altitude is the height at which a space vehicle is turned from its launch trajectory into an orbital trajectory. Injection mass is the mass of a space vehicle at the termination of one phase of a mission which continues into the next phase.



2. (math.) A one-to-one mapping.