Sentence examples for start to orbit from inspiring English sources

"Arriving at the comet is really only just the beginning of an even bigger adventure, with greater challenges still to come as we learn how to operate in this unchartered environment, start to orbit and, eventually, land," said Sylvain Lodiot, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft operations manager in a statement.

Does Wednesday's success in starting to orbit the comet make a landing more or less likely?

The best possible landing site was decided in September, after Rosetta caught up with the comet and started to orbit around it.

Otherwise, the delicate gravity of a novel's solar system gets thrown too far out of whack, and its planets start to spin out of orbit.

I think somewhere in my 2,600 orbits, you start to get a completely unfettered understanding of the world.

He expects that as additional distant bodies are discovered, their orbits will start to look more random.

That will have to wait until a navigation signal is switched on, and it is likely to be 2015 before there are enough spacecraft in orbit for Galileo to start to show its true capability.

As it lost weight, it started to incline its orbit toward the earth: it was dangerous, above and beyond anything else.

Besides containing living quarters, it will carry the booster rocket needed to push the station back into place if it starts to fall out of orbit.

Then, just when things couldn't get any more mysterious, he starts to come into the orbit of King Penda, the last Pagan king of Britain who died in AD655.

Saturn's orbit started to tilt its northern hemisphere toward the sun in late 2012, which better illuminated the hexagon and made this new video possible.