Sentence examples for leave orbit from inspiring English sources

Hayabusa was launched in May 2003 and has until early December before it must leave orbit and begin its 180 million-mile journey home.

If all goes as planned, the Mir space station will leave orbit within the next two weeks, beginning its final performance.

The head of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) K Radhakrishnan said the operation to leave orbit had passed off well.

After it collapsed into bankruptcy in 1999, skywatchers hoped to see the lights of the flame-out literally as the satellites were to leave orbit and burn up in the atmosphere.

After it collapsed into bankruptcy in 1999, skywatchers hoped to see the lights of the flame-out--literally--as the satellites were to leave orbit and burn up in the atmosphere.

He postpones his plans to bombard the encampment, after delays in convincing Enterprise to leave orbit.

Leaving Orbit, by Margaret Lazarus Dean (Graywolf).

Reviews of "Eileen," "Infinite Home," "Destruction Was My Beatrice," and "Leaving Orbit".

Her previous book, "Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight," was published in 2015.

It is not a reusable spacecraft, so when it leaves orbit, it will crash into the South Pacific.

By altering the magnetic fields, the engine's nozzle can be opened up for more thrust as the spaceship enters or leaves orbit and can be throttled back for better fuel efficiency during the trip.