graveyard orbit

On 5 May 2001, it was retired to a graveyard orbit.

It was retired to a graveyard orbit in June 2008.

It operated here before being dumped to graveyard orbit in 2003.

Remaining fuel was used to boost it into a graveyard orbit.

Following its retirement it became the first satellite to be sent into a graveyard orbit.

It was permanently retired from service and raised to a graveyard orbit on 14 June 2007.

The satellite was retired from service and placed into a graveyard orbit in October 2011.

It was placed into a graveyard orbit and decommissioned in January 2009.

They soon come upon a spaceship graveyard orbiting a giant space station.

It was retired and manoeuvred to a graveyard orbit on 1 December 2009.

The satellite was decommissioned on 6 April 2006 after it had been moved to a graveyard orbit.

On January 16, 1998, its fuel was exhausted and it was moved into graveyard orbit.

Following this it remained in storage for a year as a backup, before being boosted to a graveyard orbit between 4 and 5 May 2004.

And he described to the Colonel just how it might feel out there in the graveyard orbit, down along that firework trajectory.

In January 2013 the Thor 2 de-orbited to the graveyard orbit.

Instead of being de-orbited, most satellites are either left in their current orbit or moved to a graveyard orbit.

GOES 5 was retired to a graveyard orbit on 18 July 1990.

It joins GOES 8 and 9 which are already in graveyard orbits.

Before the fuel comes to an end, satellites can be moved to a graveyard orbit to keep the geostationary altitude free for subsequent missions.

Disposal orbit - A synonym for graveyard orbit.

Following this failure, it remained operational as a relay satellite until it was retired to a graveyard orbit on 19 May 1992.

A graveyard orbit is used when the change in velocity required to perform a de-orbit maneuver is too high.

It became the first spacecraft to be raised out of geosynchronous orbit, into a graveyard orbit for disposal.

I stacked them up for the graveyard orbit at Cor Caroli.

It was briefly used for a series of tests to verify the satellite's systems, before it was retired to a graveyard orbit.