Sentence examples for a high orbit from inspiring English sources

NASA engineers directed the observatory through a series of suicide rocket firings that dropped it from a high orbit and sent it plunging to Earth.

The Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration satellite, or Image, launched in March 2000, is the first to depict the entire process from a high orbit that stretches 28,500 miles into space, she said.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers directed the Compton observatory through a series of suicide rocket firings that dropped it from a high orbit and sent it plunging to Earth.

The project, which would deploy a satellite called Triana in a high orbit to observe the entire Earth, could make contributions to Earth and solar science at a relatively reasonable cost, said a panel of experts assembled by the academy's National Research Council.

Most of the commercial activity in the heavens nowadays involves the less glamorous business of "fixed" satellites the sort that simply sit in a high orbit that keeps them above a single spot on the earth.The fixed-satellite business is going though two different revolutions at the same time.

The cost would be $200 million to $300 million, plus up to $100 million to launch the telescope into a high orbit aboard a Delta 2 expendable rocket.

Once work was completed, the telescope was redeployed, typically after boosting to a higher orbit to address the orbital decay caused by atmospheric drag.

We find that the common view period increases with increasing orbital height, indicating that a higher orbit will be better suited for our purposes.

But, he said, a risk remained that some debris could be kicked into a higher orbit.

So, the Progress spacecraft will be used to stabilize Mir in space and possibly boost it to a higher orbit.

MirCorp promised to pay for the Progress mission, which is intended to boost Mir temporarily to a higher orbit.