Sentence examples for orbital from inspiring English sources
The word 'orbital' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a path or movement around another object, especially one that follows a specific pattern such as an orbit. For example, you could say: "The satellite will trace an orbital path around the Earth."
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A specification of the energy and probability density of an electron at any point in an atom or molecule
To do this the satellite would need to be in a synchronous orbit (one whose orbital period is the same as the period of revolution of the planet underneath), and the descending cable would have to be counterbalanced by an ascending one extending off into space.
A few minutes after the launch the Antares rocket was safely in orbit, prompting cheers and sighs of relief on the ground.In this section A new brick in the Great Wall Three wrongs make a right Orbital in orbit Bad beehaviour Reprints Related topics Manned spaceflight Space Exploration Technologies Technology NASA Science and technologyAdmittedly, the flight was only an initial test.
THE Space Age produced lots of predictions about the future that never quite came true moon bases, asteroid mining, giant orbiting habitats and sun-fueled orbital power stations, to name a few.
The rise of the private space industry, which aims to slash the cost of getting into orbit, brings hope that the sort of orbital infrastructure which would be needed to build a starship might one day be developed.
The theory of planetary formation suggests that if a planet were to be in orbit around such a binary system it would be in the same orbital plane as the stars, and would thus pass regularly in front of them.
Sedna, 2012VP113 and a handful of smaller objects share similar values of a particular orbital characteristic called the "argument of perihelion", which describes the angle that their orbits form with the plane of the solar system.
Of the 80 potential passengers, two were advised by their doctors not to take part and three were asked to come back after more training.NASTAR reckons that more than 90% of the population could handle a sub-orbital flight.
NASA could focus on getting the costs of spaceflight down, and on helping the private sector to get tourists on sub-orbital flights.
Virgin Galactic said it wanted to offer commercial sub-orbital flights to paying passengers by the end of the decade.Virgin Galactic has since accumulated a number of commercial rivals in the space-tourism market.
Moreover, the business plan that he and his partner Burt Rutan are working on sounds perfectly, er, down to earth.Mr Rutan is the brain behind SpaceShipOne, which in June became the first privately funded spaceship, reaching the edge of space on a sub-orbital hop.
That simplifies the mission enormously by removing the need for landing rockets, spacesuits and complicated orbital-insertion manoeuvres.
