Orbiter used in a sentence

Orbiter in a sentence as a noun

For example, one of the reasons failing orbiters are of concern is that contamination can be an issue if they crash into the surface.

The receiver on the orbiter was never commanded to turn on, according to officials with the European Space Agency.

Then the orbiter and the lander will survey and study the comet while it gets closer and closer to the sun, transitioning from more or less a dead rock to a fully active comet with gas jets and a cometary tail.

Putting an orbiter around Mars on a relative shoestring is likely to generate a lot of inward investment in India, which will help to pay for very expensive things like content-scale infrastructure.

Big wings means a more difficult reentry scenario, which means exotic, and brittle, thermal protection systems on the wing leading edges, which means a much larger area of highly vulnerable thermal protection materials on the orbiter.