Orbited in a sentence

Manned exploration of the Moon began in 1968 with the Apollo 8 mission that successfully orbited the Moon, the first time any extraterrestrial object was orbited by humans.

Its first lunar probe, the Chandrayaan-1, orbited the moon and was then deliberately crash-landed onto the lunar surface in 2008.

Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata has been showing off his photography skills, sharing some impressive shots taken from the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbited Earth on Sunday.

Some comics explain that his powers evolved because of the higher gravity of Krypton, and others specify that his powers would be deactivated by the type of red sun that Krypton orbited.

The moon trees, called such because they orbited the moon, are a legacy project of an earlier mission.

The stage was de-orbited from 650 km to 350 km, which facilitated its early re-entry, and was passivated to remove residual propellants to minimize any accidental break-up risks.

The military jets, including Sukhoi-30 MKI, MiG-29 and Jaguar, flew over Rajpath, Delhi's centrepiece boulevard, and then orbited over the city for around 30 minutes from 11 am.

The star Kepler-160 is probably orbited by a planet less than twice the size of the Earth with a star-planet distance that could permit planetary surface temperatures conducive to life.

As we find more of these relatively small moons, we understand more about the larger parent moons that orbited earlier in our solar system’s history.

In her professional life, a small group of assistants, managers and dancers orbited her like moons.

Since 2010, we've also seen other space missions in action: arrived at Jupiter, orbited the moon and circled Mars.

Those of us lucky/unlucky enough to live in the West see the rest of the world revolving around us, like Europe's 17th century sun, which, of course, orbited around the earth.

Scientists revealed these huge electromagnetic waves while studying old data from Galileo, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.

Specifically, they were hunting for stars being sucked up by the black holes they orbited, causing the black holes to spit out x-rays.

Watch: SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster into spaceA cherry-red convertible orbited the Earth.

By 1919, Bohr was moving away from the idea that electrons orbited the nucleus, and he developed heuristics to describe them.

Doppler surveys of a wide variety of stars indicate about 1 in 6 stars with twice the mass of the Sun are orbited by one or more Jupiter-sized planets, vs. 1 in 16 for Sun-like stars and only 1 in 50 for red dwarfs.

Eros was one of the first asteroids visited by a spacecraft, the first one orbited, and the first one soft-landed on.

Eventually, the orbits shifted to the point where Jupiter and Saturn reached an exact 2:1 resonance; Jupiter orbited the Sun twice for every one Saturn orbit.

Historically, due to budgetary constraints at the beginning of satellite missions, satellites were rarely designed to be de-orbited.