But they'll let me take up a parking orbit, he thought.

With a parking orbit, these can often be increased up to several hours.

At least one such satellite has been called into action from a parking orbit.

In fact, she was little more than half an hour out of parking orbit, though he wasn't really supposed to know that.

Do not attempt to board this or any other ship left in parking orbit.

The probe is in a parking orbit, waiting for that to happen.

This was not a problem on a lunar mission because of the short stay in the parking orbit.

They appear to be in a parking orbit around the planet Saturn.

"That ship's been sitting in a parking orbit for over three months.

There would be no need to break the former battleship out of her parking orbit.

Despite this, the third stage and spacecraft reached its planned Earth parking orbit.

The crew took a shuttle down from parking orbit to the port.

There are several reasons why a parking orbit may be used:

The ship shortly broke out of its parking orbit and went into an entry approach.

It certainly beats trying to find parking orbits for all of you."

The cutter assumed a parking orbit and dropped a launch.

Luna 22 was launched into Earth parking orbit and then to the moon.

"An unidentified ship has taken up a parking orbit.

"They're following a course that will take them into a parking orbit just inside the limits of the orbital stations."

The third stage puts Apollo into a parking orbit.

The asteroid slid out of view as the pilots established a parking orbit around it.

We put our ship in the assigned parking orbit, and a Mercury shuttle took the four of us down to the surface.

Not surprising; it didn't need a lot of brainpower to maintain a low parking orbit.

I couldn't have gotten a parking orbit if I had wanted one."

It's in a parking orbit ten miles off Ceres.