In essence, it would be a giant cable reaching tens of thousands of kilometres into space to an orbiting satellite.

从本质上来说，它就好像是通往万里之外正在太空轨道中运转的卫星的一个巨大缆绳。

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For example, if a rover on Mars needs to send data to Earth, it would first need to store the data until it was within range of an orbiting satellite.

如果有个漫游机器人在火星表面有信息传回地球，机器人会先将数据保存起来，等到卫星绕到了可以接收信号的轨道范围再发送出去；

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Images of the flare were recorded by an orbiting satellite called the Solar Dynamics Observatory.

一颗名为太阳动力学观测卫星的轨道卫星拍摄了一组太阳耀斑的图片。

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The two men would chase another object orbiting Earth,a satellite.

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But one of the big innovations of recent years has been the low-orbiting satellite.

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In essence, it would be a giant cable reaching tens of thousands of kilometres into space to an orbiting satellite.

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It is made by combining a sequence of radar images acquired by an orbiting satellite "before" and "after" a quake.

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