Sentence examples for orbiter it from inspiring English sources
The orbiter, it turned out, had a tape recorder on board.
Soon after the Schiaparelli lander parts company with the Trace Gas Orbiter, it will go into hibernation to save power.
"We knew if we fractured the carbon-carbon on the leading edge of the orbiter, it was a lost day," he said.
It would use the same external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters as the shuttle, but instead of an orbiter, it would have a disposable cargo container strapped on to the tank capable of lifting up to 170,000 pounds.
Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, has the slowest rotational period of any world in our solar system and according to data recently gathered by the European Space Agency's Venus Express orbiter, it's getting slower.
The jet will then be reunited with the very first orbiter it flew, the prototype Enterprise, for a ferry flight to New York City.
And just like the famous winged orbiters, it would glide back to Earth to land on a runway.
The robust substance traditionally made from burned bones should help protect the Solar Orbiter when it flies closer to the sun than any spacecraft before it.
"Some of that information remains on the orbiter, but it's recorded".
This snub-nosed device would release its heat shield, deploy a parachute, and transmit information about Jupiter's atmosphere back to the orbiter as it sank into oblivion.
A special boom to inspect the surface of the orbiter once it reaches space is also behind schedule, NASA officials said in their progress report.
