That would be consistent with an effort to place a small satellite into orbit.

The satellite was about four times the size of earlier ones successfully placed into orbit in 1980 and 1983 from the same launching site.

A satellite is an object placed into orbit by human endeavor.

The attempt to place the satellite into orbit failed.

A Soyuz-2-1b carrier rocket will be used to place it into orbit.

The launch attempted to place the satellite into geostationary orbit.

Its general assignment was to place small- and medium size payloads into orbit.

Omid was the second Iranian satellite to be placed into orbit.

Over time, a massive system of artificial satellites was placed into orbit around Earth.

It was to be capable of placing a 2,000-kilogram projectile into orbit.