How to Use orbiter in a Sentence

orbiter

noun

• The orbiter will now study new regions away from the poles of the Moon.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 Apr. 2022
• The orbiter would launch like a rocket and land like a plane.
  — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 22 Mar. 2021
• The mission, planned to launch in 2031, would send an orbiter and probe to the planet.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2022
• The two spacecraft were made up of an orbiter and a lander.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 25 July 2023
• This orbiter’s work would not just be, in a manner of speaking, skin-deep.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 2 June 2021
• The success of the Hope orbiter may point to more exciting science to come.
  — Jonathan O’Callaghan, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• As a consequence, estimates of the force of the orbiter’s thruster were off by a factor of 4.5.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• Tianwen-1 mission—composed of an orbiter, a lander and a rover—is there, too.
  — Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2022
• The orbiter also captured snapshots of boulder-sized blocks of ice at the site.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• The shuttle's robotic can wield the device to scan the underside of the orbiter for damage.
  — Alex Roland and Ken Bowersox, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2021
• All of those are likely a bit to a lot more expensive than the LAVA orbiter could be.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
• In addition to the orbiter, KARI aims to make an initial lunar landing on the moon by 2030.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Jan. 2023
• The orbiter, which launched into space in July 2020, is designed to study the atmosphere of Mars.
  — NBC News, 8 July 2021
• Jemison and Sharon McDougle, then a spacesuit technician, walk away from the orbiter at the end of the crew training.
  — NBC News, 22 Apr. 2022
• The company, which builds both rockets and spacecraft, sent a orbiter to the Moon earlier this month, and has plans to do the same at Venus and Mars.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 27 July 2022
• The orbiter, already circling the planet, will remain there, while the lander and rover will travel down to the planet.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 13 May 2021
• Instead, the orbiter was called Enterprise, like the TV show's starship.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 15 Sep. 2021
• The United Arab Emirates’ Hope orbiter is still circling the planet.
  — Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2022
• The two short video clips show the moments after the Mars lander was released by the orbiter and began descending to the surface.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 19 May 2021
• During the launch a chunk of foam had peeled off a strut attached to the huge external fuel tank and walloped the underside of the orbiter’s left wing.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
• But perhaps one day far in the future an orbiter might be in the cards, with an ability to detect life at gentler speeds.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Science | AAAS, 18 May 2021
• Rather than just sending a rover or orbiter or lander, China decided to send all three at the same time.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 13 May 2021
• The orbiter was enclosed to protect it from work site pollution and the elements.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• After the rover's mission ends, the orbiter will conduct a global survey of the planet for one Martian year, or 687 Earth days.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 22 May 2021
• With Tianwen-1, China is the first nation to attempt sending both an orbiter and a rover on its first homegrown Mars mission.
  — Zamira Rahim and Jessie Yeung, CNN, 28 June 2021
• With Tianwen-1, China was the first nation to attempt sending both an orbiter and a rover on its first homegrown Mars mission.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 30 June 2022
• The lander and rover separated from the orbiter at about 4 a.m. before flying for around three hours and hurtling toward Mars.
  — Natasha Khan, WSJ, 15 May 2021
• Circling the moon for 12 years, the orbiter will measure temperatures changes on the lunar surface during the eclipse.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2021
• That mission's orbiter is still flying around the Moon in good working condition, so Chandrayaan-3 will be focused on the lander.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2022
• The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter was intended to release a 1.62-ton Vikram lunar-lander.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024