Sentence examples for the first orbit from inspiring English sources

Today's announcement comes on the 55th anniversary of the first orbit of the planet by the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Near the end of the first orbit, trouble with the automatic control system forced Mr. Glenn to take manual control for much of the remaining orbits.

The first orbit of an electron occurs when the RF field across the gap is in a direction to retard its motion.

They docked with an Agena target on the first orbit and were propelled together to a record altitude of 850 miles (about 1,370 km).

Manned by Conrad and Richard F. Gordon, Jr., Gemini 11 was launched on Sept. 12, 1966, and docked with an Agena target vehicle on the first orbit.

So at one end of the station Catherine was listening to the First Orbit music, while at the other end of the station Paolo was filming First Orbit, without either of them knowing.

Nasa scientists are making final preparations for a spacecraft to begin the first orbits around a dwarf planet in the planetary rubble on the far side of Mars.

The first orbiting module (Tiangong, or Heavenly Palace), which will be used to gain docking experience for the space-station project, will be launched as early as next year.

It came at the height of the cold war, after the US had been stung by the Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik 1, the first orbiting satellite, and so proved a sensation.

The first orbits can be used to acquire follow-up observations, which allow the determination of elliptical orbits.

As the discovery observations of an object usually cover a time interval of a few minutes only, the first orbits determined are assumed to be circular.