How to Use orbiter in a Sentence

orbiter

noun
  • The orbiter would launch like a rocket and land like a plane.
    — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 22 Mar. 2021
  • But orbiters around Mars and Jupiter will get a look.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The orbiter will now study new regions away from the poles of the Moon.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 Apr. 2022
  • This orbiter’s work would not just be, in a manner of speaking, skin-deep.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 2 June 2021
  • But in my book, the first rocket to launch an orbiter to Neptune wins.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2018
  • And on its third flyby of the celestial body, the orbiter struck gold.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
  • An orbiter and lander—complete with a rover of its own—will blast off from Earth.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2020
  • The former is an orbiter designed to study the atmosphere of the world.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 7 July 2020
  • The samples will be transferred to the orbiter for the journey back to Earth.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The orbiter also captured snapshots of boulder-sized blocks of ice at the site.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The flagship mission would send a Uranus orbiter to study the planet.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • And then the orbiter will send that information back to Earth.
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 4 May 2018
  • Tianwen-1 mission—composed of an orbiter, a lander and a rover—is there, too.
    — Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The success of the Hope orbiter may point to more exciting science to come.
    — Jonathan O’Callaghan, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The mission, planned to launch in 2031, would send an orbiter and probe to the planet.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2022
  • So far, only unmanned rovers and orbiters have made it to the Red Planet.
    — Davis Winkie, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The orbiter will not land on earth after the delivery of the samples, says Loureiro.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • The lunar samples were transferred to the orbiter, which will rocket back to Earth.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
  • The polar, or low Earth orbiters, known as LEOs, fly low and fast.
    — Andrew Blum, WIRED, 25 June 2019
  • The orbiter will look at the clouds of Venus, as well as the planet's mountains, during two flybys.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • But the orbiter’s wide-angle multispectral camera is not as sharp.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The orbiter will then relay the material to Earth, in the Utah desert.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The lunar reconnaissance orbiter flies by at about 31 miles high.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Things aren't looking good for one of NASA's Mars orbiters.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
  • 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 Viking orbiters first captured images of dust devils in the 1970s.
    — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
  • If getting out of the [shuttle] orbiter needed to be done quickly, how was he supposed to exit safely with a paraplegic?
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Neither spacecraft was designed to measure wind, but the researchers harnessed a subtle quirk in the orbiters' cameras to do so.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025

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