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orbiter Definition

or·biter (ôrbit ər)

noun

  1. one that moves in an orbit
  2. ☆ a spacecraft or artificial satellite designed to orbit a planet or other celestial body
orbiter Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • damage: Over 100 cameras were used to observe the lift-off to check for any falling debris that could damage the orbiter.
  • include: The Mars Surveyor '98 mission originally included an orbiter, lander, and rover.

Adjective modifier

  • lunar: Carefully collected samples have been correlated with data obtained by lunar orbiters, including the most recent lunar missions.
  • other: Once the dust has settled, other orbiters will search for the crater left behind â the latest addition to the battered lunar surface.

Modifies a noun

  • mission: The orbiter missions would be followed by craft landing on Europa.
  • image: But the orbiter images are still frustratingly vague and the Huygens images are few in number and cover only a tiny area.
  • vehicle: Orbiter Vehicles - Information on each operational and retired vehicle in the US fleet of space shuttles with details of construction and missions.

Noun used with modifier

  • Viking: The images MGS has transmitted to Earth have much higher resolution than those obtained by the Viking orbiters in the 1970s.
  • climate: Worse still the 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter ended in pieces simply through failure to spot a mix-up of metric and imperial units.
  • shuttle: Click here for a virtual-reality model of the shuttle Orbiter using Quicktime.
  • odyssey: The movie has been created from the many images taken by the THEMIS instrument on-board the Mars Odyssey orbiter.
  • space: Weather frustrates shuttle again Poor weather conditions prevent the Discovery space orbiter from launching for the second day running.

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  7. orbicularly
  8. orbicularity
  9. orbicular
  10. orbed
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