Sentence examples for orbiting speed from inspiring English sources

Researchers believe Ladee likely vaporized when it hit because of its extreme orbiting speed of 3,600 mph, possibly smacking into a mountain or side of a crater.

As a result of this exchange, disk particles inside the planet's orbit speed up.

The two spacecraft flew in tandem at an orbit speed of 7.8 kilometers per second (about 17,500 miles per hour).

Somewhere around 4,500 planets, with one in particular -- the recently discovered Kepler 78b -- having the same density and orbit speed (but alas, not the same temperature) as our own pale blue speck.

But that kind of suborbital jaunt is a far cry from getting into orbit, because orbital speeds are so much higher and have such small margins.

And as you go outward the orbit speeds get progressively slower.

The passband corresponds to wavelengths of 15 188 km, assuming the vehicle orbit speeds of about 7.5 km/s.

This appearance is a result of the different orbit speeds of the planets around the sun.

Toward the center of the Milky Way the orbit speeds are too low, whereas beyond 7 kpcs the speeds are too high to match what would be expected from the universal law of gravitation.

The South Korean Defense Ministry said Thursday that the satellite was orbiting at a speed of 4.7 miles per second, though it was not known whether it was functioning normally.

They watched the launch back in March 2004 and then waited as Rosetta was sent on a long trek through space to allow it to pick up speed, orbiting the Sun five times and using the gravity of Earth and Mars to accelerate to catch up with 67P.