Sentence examples for orbit back from inspiring English sources

The result, astronomers say, is that the telescope today is 100 times as powerful as the one they thought they were putting in orbit back in 1990.

Firmly in Russia's orbit back in 2006, during a re-election vote condemned as fraudulent by Western observers, Mr. Lukashenko was subsequently shocked when Gazprom, the Russian natural gas company, asked to increase prices.

Using other software that "devolves" the orbits back in time, the researchers arrived at a point where the orbits were nearly aligned.

The effect can also be used to trace asteroid orbits back in time, in order to identify the events that created them.

When the scientists traced the orbits back in time, they were startled to find that the paths crossed at a single point in space about 5.8 million years ago.

Monday's flight lacked the enormous rocket power and protective heat shields needed to fly into orbit and back.

Energia was launched only twice, once in 1987 with a military payload and once the next year carrying Buran on a successful unmanned test flight into orbit and back.

Since the shuttle fleet retired in 2011 Nasa has depended on Russian rockets to transport astronauts to orbit and back, paying nearly $71m per seat.

The imminent release of Ched Evans from Wymott Prison, after serving half of a five-year sentence for raping a 19-year old after a night out, has forced football – and those who orbit it – back into a moral maze.

John Young, that pilot aboard Gemini 3 who'd once smuggled an illegal corned beef sandwich into orbit, landed back on Earth in 1965 to learn that he was in a whole lot of trouble.

The stretching floury disks that collapsed on the hands of the dough-makers in their chef's hats, fists working the disks around, dough growing in girth, orbit, then back up in the air.