Sentence examples for on which orbit from inspiring English sources

Computer simulations cannot tell far in advance on which orbit a spacecraft will re-enter.

The essential ΔV presents information on which orbit is good with respect to the minimum fuel consumption.

GPS relies on 24 main satellites which orbit the Earth to provide positional and navigational information.

This is likely what happened on Mars, which orbits just outside the Sun's liquid-water zone.

Missouri-based Anheuser-Busch said it plans two experiments on the International Space Station, which orbits at about 220 miles above the Earth.

Peake's main role is to run or take part in dozens of experiments on the station, which orbits the Earth at an average altitude of 248 miles (400km) and speed of 17,500mph.

Progress was to deliver food, water, fuel, oxygen and clothing to the crew of six people on the ISS, which orbits about 420km (250 miles) above Earth.

On a scale about a million times smaller than the figure above, the pulsar's high-energy wind also has a dramatic effect on its companion star, which orbits the pulsar every 9.2 hours.

Sensors on the Galileo probe, which orbited the planet from 1995 until 2003, looked at Europa in relatively wide wavelength bands, so researchers couldn't use that data to identify specific chemicals tingeing the moon's surface.

Cited as evidence is the observation that many of the craters on Tethys have bright floors, whereas the craters on Saturn's moon Hyperion, which orbits relatively far from Tethys and the E ring, tend to have dark floors.

To study the mutation in these two types of vegetables induced from spaceflight, we flew the seeds on the 20th Chinese recoverable satellite which orbited the Earth for 18 days.