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Carlisle writes that the Air Force would want a crew ratio of 10 to one for each drone orbit during normal everyday operations.

During an emergency that ratio could be allowed to drop to 8.5 people per orbit.

Each CAP, also known as an “orbit,” consists on four aircraft.

Other groups in the progressive orbit are trying out other tactics.

Orion will orbit Earth twice before splashing down off the California coast.

See that silver spiral going out from Venus and around the table to the orbit of Saturn?

Each new orbit out from the sun has cost plenty in money, ships, and lives; it's the admission price.

In an orbit made elliptical by the planetary attraction the sun necessarily occupies one of the foci of the ellipse.

Bad her fleen, bade her flee; because her motion in her orbit was faster than his.

A dark moon has joined this celestial grouping, and is now swinging in an orbit about the earth.

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On this page you'll find 100 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to orbit, such as: path, pattern, rotation, trajectory, apogee, and circle.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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