in/into orbit• The body in orbit is thus slowed down slightly.• The system is not expected to leak while the craft is in orbit and the hydraulics are not in use.• Weight was slowly ebbing; the rockets were being throttled back as the shipeased itself into orbit.• The station, like any other object in orbit, lost energy through radiating it into space as infra-redelectromagneticradiation.• Once in orbit, you are precisely half way to having enough energy to escape from Earth.• Then the penalty paid in orbitmatching with Mars and Phobos would be much smaller.• The programmes are beamed from Anik C, a telecommunications satellite that went into orbit at the end of last year.
Originorbit2
(1500-1600)Latinorbita“wheel-track”, probably from orbis; → ORB