Sentence examples for bound orbit from inspiring English sources

Arriving at Eros on February 14 (appropriately, Valentine's Day), NEAR became the first spacecraft to be placed in a gravitationally bound orbit around an asteroid.

During December and January, Rosetta was able to move to within 30km of Comet 67P and go into a gravitationally bound orbit.

For a solar sail directly facing the sun in a bound orbit, the Poynting Robertson effect decreases its orbital speed, thereby causing it to slowly spiral towards the sun.

Planets can capture satellites only if the satellites have low enough energy as to be in a bound orbit.

An iron atom in the corona can be stripped of 13 electrons when each one is knocked out of its bound orbit by colliding with a free electron.

After rendezvous, the Rosetta spacecraft moved from 100 km above the comet to a bound orbit only ~10 km away.

But if Neptune, or any other body (we still don't know most of what's out there in the outer Solar System) gives you extra kinetic energy, it could change your orbit from a bound, elliptical orbit, to an unbound, hyperbolic one.

When the inner orbit remains bound, and the outer orbit becomes unbound, the outer star and inner binary remain as separated systems.

SpaceX has its second window for launching Intelsat 35e, a satellite bound for geostationary orbit, on Monday at 7 37 PM EDT (4 37 PM PDT).

In addition to isolated stars, a multi-star system can consist of two or more gravitationally bound stars that orbit each other.

Kepler-14 is a binary star system, which means that it is actually composed of two gravitationally bound stars that orbit a common point in space.