Sentence examples for intended orbit from inspiring English sources
Under the contract, the Hawthorne, Calif.-based rocket company founded by Elon Musk will launch the Air Force Space Command-52 satellite to its intended orbit.
Akatsuki was successfully inserted into orbit surrounding Venus during December 2016, but with a period of ~ 10 days, approximately ~ 8 times longer than the originally intended orbit.
The limited number of available launcher programs and the launcher dispersion then require a time-critical correction manoeuvre in order to deliver the spacecraft to its intended orbit.
This left the shuttle miles short of its intended orbit.
In order for a launch vehicle to place a spacecraft in the intended orbit, it must have navigation, guidance, and control capabilities.
The vessel, carrying food, water and clothing to the space station, overshot its intended orbit on Tuesday and failed to establish communications with Russian ground controllers.
Soviet rocket engineers had long intended a canine orbit before attempting human spaceflight; since 1951, they had lofted 12 dogs into sub-orbital space on ballistic flights, working gradually toward an orbital mission set for some time in 1958.
However, it must be said that the BERNESE software originally is intended to determine orbits for the GPS satellites and it could not be guaranteed that it also will work properly for our purpose because the POGO time was earlier than the actual GPS invention (personal communication of R. Dach, head GPS research and BERNESE development group at AIUB).
In such an approach, the tested objects (e.g., manipulators intended for on-orbit operations or vehicles simulating satellites in a close formation flight) are mounted on planar air-bearings that allow almost frictionless motion on a flat surface, thus simulating microgravity conditions in two dimensions.
Blue Origin's New Shepard is not intended to go into orbit or carry payloads into orbit.
The third step, which became necessary after we obtained many images of Venus in orbit, is intended to correct for brightness variations between quadrants of the detector.
