orbiter
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- noun
- /ˈɔːrbɪtər/
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orbitador
- A place to rest: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will identify potential landing sites.
- Viking orbiter
- Mars Orbiter
- Reconnaissance Orbiter
It is a orbiter Lander combination.
- It is a orbiter Lander combination.
- And the reality was that to turn around an orbiter between flights was almost like rebuilding it.
- So that's why, that's why the view was moving and it felt like being in an orbiter around the moon.
- So the, the shuttle was the orbiter was fully reusable.
Examples
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The first X-ray orbiter, Uhuru, was launched by NASA in 1970.
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On a dime held at arm's length, we send men to the Moon and orbiters to Saturn and Rovers to Mars.
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Mission control, patch me into the space orbiter.
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And then the Mars Climate Orbiter, this one was lost, fortunately.
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Remember when NASA lost one orbiter because one team used metric, while the other used standard?
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Five dust devils were imaged by the Viking orbiter in 1976.
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The Pioneer Venus Orbiter, launched in 1978, was used to map cloud temperatures on Venus.
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If human explorers will need to drill to find groundwater, orbiters could be sent ahead with powerful ground-penetrating radar.
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The Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) will focus on probing and measuring Mercury's magnetosphere.
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NASA's new Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter is making the first complete temperature map of the moon.
Synonyms
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An artificial object placed in orbit to send information or gather data from space
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A vehicle that travels in outer space
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A machine built to travel in outer space, like a spacecraft or satellite
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A man-made object put into space that goes around Earth, the Moon, or another body
Compounds
- Offensive
A man who often supports and admires a woman without romantic interest from her
How Big
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Etymology
Orbiter comes from the Latin root orbis, which means 'circle' or 'ring', and is the same root as orbit and orb. So an orbiter is something that moves in a circle around a planet or moon, like a spacecraft sent to study it.