Astronauts will make a final attempt today to rescue a communications satellite from its useless orbit.

宇航员们今天将做最后一次尝试，把一颗通讯卫星从它无用的轨道上拯救出来。

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One problem with the collision hypothesis is the question of how a satellite formed in this way could have settled into the nearly circular orbit that the Moon has today.

碰撞假说的一个问题是，以这种方式形成的卫星是如何在月球现在的近乎圆形的轨道上运行的。

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Because they're so small and light, it costs much less to get a Cube Sat into Earth's orbit than a traditional communications or GPS satellite.

由于立方体卫星如此小而轻，与传统通讯或 GPS 卫星相比，将它送入地球轨道的成本要低得多。

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Military officials immediately offered to use the Jupiter to put a scientific satellite into orbit around the Earth.

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The twenty-two meter long rocket would put a little scientific satellite into orbit as one of the events of the international geophysical year.

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In nineteen fifty-seven, a Soviet military rocket carried a small satellite into Earth orbit.

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Putting a satellite into orbit on a long-range rocket as it did in December is a lot different from delivering a warhead to a desired location on such a rocket.

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Now, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) is looking to launch a satellite into orbit and use a 'droid -- much smaller than the Astromech variety -- to control said satellite.

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Others, including Pirate Party co-chairman Gregory Engels, seem to prefer the idea of a low-Earth-orbit satellite that would be harder to launch but easier to keep airborne than a slowly-deflating balloon.

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