Sentence examples for achieved orbit from inspiring English sources

It achieved orbit two weeks before the first USSR orbiter, Mars 2, reached its destination.

When its first module achieved orbit in 1986, Mir was the pride of the Soviet Union.

A Japanese spacecraft has achieved orbit around Venus, only five years late and on its second attempt.

The ESA's Mars Express, which achieved orbit in 2003, has imaged 95% of the surface of the planet and taken various measurements, hugely expanding our knowledge.

The USSR's Phobos 2 mission, launched in 1988, successfully achieved orbit, although its lander and hopper failed to reach Phobos, one of the planet's two moons.

A minute later, dust, loose change, and a couple of ballpoint pens floated up from behind our seats, signalling, Hey! We'd achieved orbit!

"Initial indications are that the missile deployed an object that appeared to achieve orbit," Norad said.

In the first launch in 1965 the OSO failed to achieve orbit.

The timing of the second-stage firing had to be exact if the satellite was to achieve orbit.

The North American Aerospace Defence Command confirmed that "initial indications are that the missile deployed an object that appeared to achieve orbit".

In 1964, a Transit nuclear-powered satellite failed to achieve orbit and broke up over the Indian Ocean.