How to Use orbiter in a Sentence

orbiter

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  • The orbiter will now study new regions away from the poles of the Moon.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The orbiter skims over the moon’s surface at 3,600 m.p.h.
    — Katherine Kornei, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2020
  • 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 samples will be transferred to the orbiter for the journey back to Earth.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The two spacecraft were made up of an orbiter and a lander.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 25 July 2023
  • The polar, or low Earth orbiters, known as LEOs, fly low and fast.
    — Andrew Blum, WIRED, 25 June 2019
  • The former is an orbiter designed to study the atmosphere of the world.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 7 July 2020
  • The orbiter can be used to relay signals from the rover to Earth, and the rover can send messages to Earth on its own.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Jan. 2021
  • The orbiter will then relay the material to Earth, in the Utah desert.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • This orbiter’s work would not just be, in a manner of speaking, skin-deep.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 2 June 2021
  • An orbiter and lander—complete with a rover of its own—will blast off from Earth.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2020
  • While the orbiter will stay in space, the lander is meant to carry the rover down to the lunar surface for an up-close look at the Moon.
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The success of the Hope orbiter may point to more exciting science to come.
    — Jonathan O’Callaghan, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Chandrayaan-2 will have a lunar orbiter, lander and a rover.
    — Fox News, 13 July 2019
  • Mars 2020 and a potential orbiter mission are in the works.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 13 Feb. 2019
  • 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
  • The lunar samples were transferred to the orbiter, which will rocket back to Earth.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
  • 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
  • The spacecraft has two modules: an orbiter and a lander.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
  • 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
  • The United Arab Emirates also launched an orbiter to Mars that month.
    — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
  • And India sent the Mangalyaan orbiter, a technical feat for the country, to the planet in 2014.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2020
  • Around the same time, China’s Tianwen-1 mission will arrive with an orbiter, a lander platform, and a rover the size of a golf cart.
    — Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 31 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • The orbiter launched to Mars in 2013 to study how the red planet has lost its atmosphere over time and how space weather generated by the sun interacts with the upper Martian atmosphere.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 June 2024
  • Previous moon missions and orbiters had discovered sulfur in tiny amounts, mostly in lunar rocks and minerals.
    — Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2024

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