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Orbit in sentence

264 examples of Orbit in a sentence

And you can be bent so much that you're caught in orbit around the Sun, as the Earth is, or the Moon around the Earth.
And you would realize you could put the Earth in a happy orbit even 30 km outside of this crushed black hole.
It shows two black holes in orbit around each other, again, with these helpfully painted curves.
Bertrand Russell made the same point using a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars.
You would strictly have to be agnostic about whether there is a teapot in orbit about Mars, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as on all fours with its non-existence.
From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.
The problem is, if you hit this asteroid, you've changed the orbit, you measure the orbit, then you find out, oh yeah, we just pushed it into a keyhole, and now it's going to hit us in three years.
If we see an asteroid that's going to hit the Earth and we have enough time, we can hit it to move it into a better orbit.
You can even put in orbit around the Earth where we could mine it, although that's a whole other thing; I won't go into that.
Small changes in Earth's orbit that occur over tens to hundreds of thousands of years alter the distribution of sunlight on Earth.
The next thing we need are places to stay on orbit.
The final missing piece, the real paradigm-buster, is this: a gas station on orbit.
You'd pay 10,000 dollars for that in orbit.
Bob Bigelow currently has a test article in the orbit.
In seven years, we could pull off an industrial mission to Shackleton and demonstrate that you could provide commercial reality out of this in low-earth orbit.
We can do it by jump-starting with an industrial Lewis and Clark expedition to Shackleton crater, to mine the moon for resources, and demonstrate they can form the basis for a profitable business on orbit.
The ten themes radiate out and orbit the time capsule.
We can actually click anything in Universe and have it become the center of the universe, and everything else will enter its orbit.
And the things that relate to Ford enter its orbit and swirl around it.
You can see that this is an important story; there are a lot of things in its orbit.
With the Falcon 9 and now the Falcon Heavy, we can launch into orbit any payload that has previously been conceived or is conceived right now.
CA: And currently, a big focus of the company is, I guess, kind of a race with Boeing to be the first to provide the service to NASA of actually putting humans into orbit.
CA: You know, looking ahead, one huge initiative SpaceX is believed to be, rumored to be working on, is a massive network of literally thousands of low earth orbit satellites to provide high-bandwidth, low-cost internet connection to every square foot of planet earth.
This would a huge increase in the total number of satellites in orbit.
You could basically spew a bunch of particles in orbit that could take out that orbit from being useful for decades or longer.
BFR can take the satellites that we're currently taking to orbit to many orbits.
It allows for even a new class of satellites to be delivered to orbit.
The booster is going to drop the spaceship off in orbit, low earth orbit, and then return just like we're returning boosters right now.
You take a cargo ship full of fuel, or a fuel depot, put it on that booster, get that in orbit, do a docking maneuver, refuel the spaceship, and head on to your destination, and this one is Mars.
Fifty years later, as a tribute, the International Space Station, which is still up there tonight, synced its orbit with Gagarin's orbit, at the exact same time of day, and filmed it, so you can go online and you can watch over 100 minutes of what must have been an absolutely mesmerizing ride, possibly a lonely one, the first person to ever see such a thing.
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