dump orbit

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an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbitsAlso called: graveyard orbit

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Words nearby dump orbit

dumping-ground, dumping syndrome, dumpish, dumpling, dump on, dump orbit, dumps, dumpsite, dumpster, dumpster diving, dumpster fire

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How to use dump orbit in a sentence

Carlisle writes that the Air Force would want a crew ratio of 10 to one for each drone orbit during normal everyday operations.
Exclusive: U.S. Drone Fleet at ‘Breaking Point,’ Air Force Says|Dave Majumdar|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
During an emergency that ratio could be allowed to drop to 8.5 people per orbit.
Exclusive: U.S. Drone Fleet at ‘Breaking Point,’ Air Force Says|Dave Majumdar|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Each CAP, also known as an “orbit,” consists on four aircraft.
Exclusive: U.S. Drone Fleet at ‘Breaking Point,’ Air Force Says|Dave Majumdar|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The mass dump suggests that whoever did this, their primary motivation was to embarrass Sony Pictures.
No, North Korea Didn’t Hack Sony|Marc Rogers|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Other groups in the progressive orbit are trying out other tactics.
Progressives: Big Ideas Will Win Us 2016|David Freedlander|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
See that silver spiral going out from Venus and around the table to the orbit of Saturn?
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe
Each new orbit out from the sun has cost plenty in money, ships, and lives; it's the admission price.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe
The girls looked down, and with a glad cry of surprise Jess recognized a dump at the foot of the hill.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner
And there, I give you my word, three High-Pocketses were busy carrying galleys from the type-dump to the proof-press.
Nine Men in Time|Noel Miller Loomis
And as fast as they could carry a galley of type from the dump, another galley would just materialize there.
Nine Men in Time|Noel Miller Loomis