"Is this supposed to be an orbital track?"

The angle of their approach, virtually straight up, meant that the archipelago grew longer the whole time, stretching out along the rock's orbital track.

It thus desired the ability to land at the Vandenberg liftoff point after one orbit, despite the earth rotating 1,000 miles beneath the orbital track.

Glancing at the altimeter and the speedometer, he remarked, "In about eight minutes we should fall back into our orbital track."

The record of previous sightings allowed the astronomers to establish the distance and plot the object's orbital track.

After that they'll swap orbital tracks and begin a new sweep.

At the same time, a new dotted line began slowly di- verging from the satellite's previously observed orbital track.

The orbital track was northwest-to-southeast, within six degrees of being directly over- head, close enough to see straight down into the valley.

At the moment, their orbital track was approaching Spain from the west.

Let's refigure our calculations for the orbital track, assuming my hunch is correct!