orbiter

英 [ˈɔːbɪtə(r)]

美 [ˈɔːrbɪtər]

n.  (绕天体作轨道运行的)宇宙飞船; 轨道飞行器

复数：orbiters　

COCA.16860

牛津词典

noun

• （绕天体作轨道运行的）宇宙飞船；轨道飞行器
  a spacecraft designed to move around a planet or moon rather than to land on it

英英释义

noun

• man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon
  Synonym:satelliteartificial satellite

双语例句

• China to launch fifth orbiter for its own'GPS '.
  我国近日将择机发射第五颗北斗导航卫星。
• When the orbiter returns from space, it lands at Kennedy Space Center.
  当轨道器从外太空返回地球时，它在肯尼迪航天中心着陆。
• The orbiter will continue to explore Saturn and its moons for four more year.
  人造卫星会在后四年继续探索土星及它的卫星。
• A major exception, the space shuttle orbiter, uses three onboard liquid-fuel main engines supplied by a disposable external tank and a pair of solid-fuel boosters to reach space.
  一个主要的例外是航天飞机轨道飞行器，它使用三个随之携带的液体燃料的重要引擎到达宇宙，而这又是由一个可任意使用的外部箱和一对固体燃料后援器来供给的。
• Only one will actually leave the orbiter module to retrieve scientific experiments placed outside.
  只有一个人将实实在在的离开卫星舱在太空中进行实验。
• The ship also will release a satellite that will circle the orbiter and send back images to mission command.
  航天器将向太空投放一枚卫星，这枚卫星将环绕航天器飞行，向使命指挥中心发送图像。
• At first, mission controllers said they were fairly certain that none of the insulation had struck the orbiter.
  飞行控制人员起先说，他们相当肯定绝热材料没有打到飞机。
• His team used the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars ( CRISM) and other instruments on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to look at colors in reflected sunlight.
  他的团队使用火星侦察影像频谱仪和其他工具登陆火星侦查轨道，观察火星上因太阳反射而产生的颜色。
• This discovery, made by the ESA-ISRO instrument SARA onboard the Indian Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter, confirms how water is likely being created on the lunar surface.
  这一发现是由欧洲空间局（ESA）与印度空间研究机构（ISRO）搭载在印度的月船1号月球轨道探测器上的SARA仪器作出的，它证实了月球表面产生水分的可能机制。
• Attaching the reliant space orbiter to the rockets and fuel tank.
  把罗宾飞船连接到火箭和燃料箱上。