Sentence examples for earth orbit from inspiring English sources

In September SpaceX put a Falcon rocket into Earth orbit, the first privately developed launch vehicle to reach earth orbit from the ground.

Single Earth orbit.

Since then, thousands have been sent into Earth orbit.

Unfortunately, the spacecraft structure failed when leaving Earth orbit.

No human being had ever been beyond low Earth orbit.

Lucky John Glenn, soaring into earth orbit a second time.

We shifted our attention to low-earth orbit.

Iridium and Globalstar are both using low-earth-orbit systems, while ICO's satellites will fly about 9,000 kilometres higher in medium-earth orbit.

But even if NASA does not venture beyond low-Earth orbit, others might.

Those would be missions beyond low-Earth orbit".

It would carry about 15 tonnes to low-Earth orbit.