Example sentences for: orbiter

How can you use “orbiter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A more pleasant story was the first successful circumnavigation of the world by two men in a balloon, the Breitling Orbiter 3. Their achievement was generally received with enthusiasm--the Times of London said mankind should rejoice and El País of Madrid that it had been the world's last great adventure--but there were also dissenting voices.

  • The LAT and NYT front NASA's realization Thursday that the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft has probably burned up in Mars' atmosphere after flying too close to the planet.

  • On Sept. 23, the $123 million Mars Climate Orbiter was lost when it veered off course and burned up in the Martian atmosphere.

  • In September, NASA lost its Climate Orbiter, which either crashed or skipped off into space after a failure to convert navigational instructions from English to metric units sent the Orbiter fatally close to the Red Planet.

  • This story is fronted by the NYT and LAT . The LAT goes with a quasi-local lead: NASA's determination that the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter earlier this year stemmed from gross mismanagement at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at Lockheed.


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