Sentence examples for once on orbit from inspiring English sources

Once on orbit, the five crew members began configuring Atlantis for on-orbit operations.

Once in orbit, instruments on board the spacecraft will start collecting and analysing dust and gas coming off the comet.

Once you have completed some surface areas, click on Orbit and scroll around to see what it is looking like so far.

At the current altitude of the Swarm satellites, attitude thrusters are activated on average less than once per orbit.

Philolaus explained this by supposing that the earth rotates once on its axis as it orbits the central fire, so that our side of the earth is always turned away from the central fire and hence we never see it.

"Having four folks who have done this at least once in the past will add dramatically to our efficiency on orbit," Captain Ferguson said.

It rotates once each orbit, so the same side always faces the planet.

"We do have experiments to perform on orbit".