Sentence examples for wrong orbit from inspiring English sources

The upper stage of a Proton rocket sent a telecommunications satellite into the wrong orbit on Aug. 18.

All went smoothly until 22 August 2014, when the fifth and sixth satellite ended up in the wrong orbit.

Earlier in August, the failure of an upper stage of a different Russian rocket put a communication satellite in a wrong orbit.

Officials were confident that there was no repeat of the failure that affected one of Falcon's nine Merlin 1C rockets on its launch in October, which eventually led to a satellite being deployed in the wrong orbit.

Military officials suspect the motor misfired, leaving their spy bird tumbling in the wrong orbit.

And in May, a Russian resupply mission was placed in the wrong orbit, forcing its cargo to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.

also paved the ways for 51-A, a hastily scheduled mission in orbit from Nov. 8 to 16, which retrived two communications satellites, Palapa and Westar, which had been boosted into wrong orbits during 41-B.

In the 1840s an astronomer called Urbain Le Verrier noticed there was something wrong with the orbit of Mercury.

And why do some planets orbit the "wrong way"?

Pulsar J1903+0327, some 20,000 light-years from Earth, appears to be orbiting the wrong kind of star in the wrong way.

The reality of satellite design is that if pretty much anything goes wrong, the thing sits in orbit like a million-dollar paperweight (although absent gravity it is technically a papermass) and eventually burns up on reentry.