"orbit" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He approached the communications station twice, each time veering off into yet another useless orbit around the bridge.
- A $150 million communications satellite was left in a useless orbit after it failed to separate correctly from a Titan 3 commercial rocket.
- The satellite had been stranded in space for more than two years after a rocket failure put it in a useless orbit.
- In any event, the results were much the same, with the payload, a communications satellite, left in a low and useless orbit.
- If something goes wrong with the 27-minute engine firing, the craft will zoom past the planet and go on into a useless orbit around the Sun.
- The single failure being the maiden flight (19 January 1974), which placed Skynet 2A into a useless orbit.
- The Orion 3 satellite (Hughes HS601 model) was stranded in a useless orbit.
- He looked through the bushes at the circling servomechanisms, going around and around in their lonely, useless orbit.
- If the second-stage motor could not hold the booster within a gradually narrowing trajectory corridor, the booster could slip into a useless and possibly dangerous orbit.
- It hovered over the payload bay, stranded in space more than two years after a rocket failure put it in a useless orbit.
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