Sentence examples for orbiter for from inspiring English sources
2016 — Luna 26 (Luna Glob Orbiter): An orbiter for the moon in a 60-mile-high (100 kilometers) polar circular orbit.
In 1992, Endeavour, a replacement orbiter for the destroyed Challenger, flew its first mission.
"My personal guess, however, is that they might try but they will fail, and we will not see a successful North Korea lunar orbiter for at least two decades, if ever".
Mobile Automation and Callisto have countered by introducing their products, RightState and Orbiter, for about $200 per computer.
The plan was for Schiaparelli, once on the ground, to transmit a much more detailed data set about the descent up to a passing orbiter for relay to Earth.
The two spacecraft are stacked for launch: an orbiter for remote investigation of the moons and in situ studies of their environment in Mars orbit, and another carrying a lander for in situ measurements on the surface of Phobos (or alternatively Deimos).
The probes will use existing orbiters for communication relay if the orbiter architecture proves too ambitious.
Beyond the important geophysical implications [ Zuber et al., 2013b; Wieczorek et al., 2013; Andrews-Hanna et al., 2013], the improved lunar gravity field resolution and accuracy yield even more precise orbits for lunar orbiters such as LRO [ Mazarico et al., 2013].
In August 2005 NASA launched a large orbiting science observatory, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), for what is scheduled to be a 5.4-year mission.
Selected as an astronaut in 1990, Collins became the first woman pilot of a U.S. space shuttle in February 1995, serving on the orbiter Discovery for a rendezvous and docking mission to the Russian space station Mir.
But alas, the Curiosity mission is a legacy of the Bush administration, begun by one NASA administrator, Sean O'Keefe, and rammed through to completion over the objections of vocal critics by his gutsy successor, Mike Griffin, who also initiated the Maven Mars orbiter, scheduled for launching next year.
