The phrase "after orbiting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action that occurs following the act of orbiting, often in contexts related to space, astronomy, or metaphorical uses of the term.
Example: "The satellite will transmit data back to Earth after orbiting the planet for several hours."
Alternatives: "following the orbit" or "subsequent to orbiting".
Its re-entry module is scheduled to return to Earth at a desert in Inner Mongolia on Sunday afternoon after orbiting the planet 13 times.
Four hours and 24 minutes later, after orbiting the Earth twice and flying further and faster than any spacecraft designed for humans since the Apollo moon program, Orion splashed back to Earth in the Pacific.
When the communications go down and the oxygen is running out and there's a fire on board the space station and the escape pod is out of fuel and the space debris is coming back around after orbiting the planet, the margins for error become vanishingly small.
Stunning images of Europa have come from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which will plunge into Jupiter on 21 September after orbiting the planet since 1995.
After orbiting Vesta for 13 months, Dawn used its ion engine to depart for Ceres, with gravitational capture occurring on 6 March 2015 at a separation of 61,000 km, four months prior to the New Horizons flyby of Pluto.
When his bell-shaped capsule splashed into the ocean after orbiting Earth again and again, John Glenn emerged an instant hero — the fighter-jock pilot of few words who in just five hours of circling the planet helped cement America's faith that it could lead the race into outer space.
While space is unfathomably vast, only a limited number of highly useful and sought-after orbits exist.
Three crew members from the International Space Station returned to Earth on Tuesday morning after six months orbiting the planet.
After a year orbiting the asteroid Eros and completing all its scientific objectives, the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft will end its mission next week, scientists say.
After it begins orbiting, the satellite will be able to connect "millions of people" in west, east, and south Africa.
NASA has turned off a decade-old space telescope, a year after loaning the orbiting instrument to a university that operated it with private funding.
