Sentence examples for orbital velocity. from inspiring English sources

After attaining 99 percent of its orbital velocity, the orbiter had exhausted the propellants in the external tank.

When Voyager left Earth's orbit, it entered solar orbit with a total heliocentric velocity (sun centered speed) of the orbital velocity of Earth (about 30 km/s) plus an additional velocity (about 6 km/s) provided by the Centaur upper stage of the launch vehicle.

Orbital velocity, velocity sufficient to cause a natural or artificial satellite to remain in orbit.

All launch vehicles employ more than one stage to accelerate spacecraft to orbital velocity.

In general, the maximum occurs at a few times the Bohr orbital velocity.

First, as the altitude increases, Earth's gravity decreases, so the orbital velocity needed to balance it decreases.

The second stage accelerated the rocket to 24,600 km (15,300 miles) per hour, or nearly orbital velocity.

Landis analyses what would happen if the exoplanet has the same orbital velocity as the Earth, 30 km/sec.

The suppression is of order 10−4, which is the ratio of Earth's orbital velocity to the speed of light.

J & E share a common average distance from the planet, which has a certain orbital velocity associated with it.

At orbital velocity, some eight kilometres a second, even an object a centimetre across could knock a satellite out.