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orbiter

[awr-bi-ter] / ˈɔr bɪ tər /
NOUN
space shuttle
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It was confirmed that the lander had been successful in its mission due to images captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Nandini, who was the deputy operations director for Mangalyaan, India's maiden Mars Orbiter Mission, wore the outfit on 1 December 2013.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

This discovery also deepens our knowledge of space weather more broadly, an area long studied by ESA through missions including SOHO, the Proba series, Swarm, and Solar Orbiter.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2025

For this, Olsen turned to the Mars Climate Sounder instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to measure the extent of the vortex via temperature measurements.

From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2025

Olsen works with ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter that is in orbit around Mars.

From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2025




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