Sentence examples for orbit ahead from inspiring English sources

These Lagrangian points lie on the planet's orbital path, a sixth of an orbit ahead of it and a sixth of an orbit behind.

These have settled it into a roughly triangular orbit 100km ahead of its target.In this section Antithesis, synthesis?

About 2 30 a.m., the spacecraft made the last of a series of 10 engine firings it began in May that allowed it to enter a triangular shaped orbit just ahead of its speeding, volatile target known as 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko. .

Over a 20-hour period, these particles spread out from Io to form a banana-shaped, neutral cloud that can reach as far as six Jovian radii from Io, either inside Io's orbit and ahead of it or outside Io's orbit and behind it.

Now that India has accomplished the amazing feat of getting a space vehicle into orbit around Mars ahead of China and Japan and for much less money than what Hollywood spent on making Gravity, it's only a matter of time before Bollywood produces its own space saga but at a fraction of the cost.

They had already launched an airstrike of 180 aircraft that was orbiting 50 mile ahead of the American carriers while waiting for the Japanese ships to be located.

The Soyuz TMA-22, with Nasa astronaut Dan Burbank and Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin on board, docked at the orbiting station several minutes ahead of schedule on Wednesday morning.

Both of the washing machine-sized craft trace the same path around the moon, but because one orbits about 44 kilometers ahead of the other one, the impacts will happen about 20 seconds apart.

The International Space Station can maneuver out of the way of larger meteoroids and bits of debris if their orbits are tracked well ahead of time.

But Mr. Webster, who acknowledges that Orbcomm made missteps before its bankruptcy filing, says the best times are still ahead for low-earth orbit satellites.

Among its other discoveries, in 2011 Wise spotted in a "Trojan" asteroid ahead of the Earth in its orbit.