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
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。 - 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。 - 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。 - The lunar orbiter will map the moon's surface from orbit in unsurpassed resolution, capturing even the tracks that lunar rovers left behind.
月球轨道器将从轨道上以非常高的清晰度绘制月球表面的地图，甚至捕捉到月球车留下的痕迹。 - Two years later NASA lost the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander.
两年后，NASA折损了火星气象卫星和火星极地登陆者号。 - View of Valles Marineris, using wide-angle imagery from NASA's Viking orbiters and the Mars Orbiter Camera.
查看水手谷，利用美国宇航局的海盗号轨道器和火星轨道器照相机广角图像。 - 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。 - Early Sunday, China successfully launched its eighth orbiter of the Beidou system.
周日清晨，中国成功发射第八颗北斗导航卫星。 - 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。 - The lander would send this information to the orbiter and then back to Earth.
着陆器把这些信息发往轨道飞行器，然后再发回地球。