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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 an object which orbits another, especially a spacecraft that orbits a planet etc. without landing on it 2 (cx: slang) A person who constantly hang around with someone he's attracted to, but if too shy to talk to.
WordNet
n. man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon [syn: satellite, artificial satellite]
Wikipedia
Orbiter is a freeware space flight simulator program developed to simulate spaceflight using realistic Newtonian physics. The simulator was first released on 27 November 2000, with the most recent of several versions 100830 released on 30 August 2010.
Orbiter was developed by Dr. Martin Schweiger, a senior research fellow in the computer science department at University College London, who felt that space flight simulators at the time were lacking in realistic physics-based flight models, and decided to write a simulator that made learning physics concepts enjoyable. It has been used as a teaching aid in classrooms, and a community of add-on developers have created a multitude of add-ons to allow users to fly assorted real and fictional spacecraft and add new planets or planetary systems.
The Orbiter is a fairground ride invented by Richard Woolls in 1976, with showman Henry Frederick Smith investing in the blueprints and consequently being the first owner, taking delivery in 1976 of the OB-1, making its debut at Dreamland Amusement Park in Margate, Kent.
Orbiter is a graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Colleen Doran, published in 2003 by DC Comics under their Vertigo imprint.
It is a hard science fiction story set in the early 21st Century about a team of specialists employed to understand the mysterious reappearance of the space shuttle Venture. The shuttle crashed back to Earth after disappearing ten years earlier with its crew missing, save for the catatonic pilot, and alien technology on board.
Ellis and Doran are both space flight enthusiasts and dedicated Orbiter to the "lives, memories and legacies" of the astronauts who died in the 2003 Columbia disaster.
Warren Ellis received an Eisner Award nomination as Best Writer for his 2004 works including Orbiter.
An orbiter is a type of a spacecraft.
Orbiter may also refer to:
- Space Shuttle orbiter, the main component of the Space Shuttle
- Orbiter (simulator), a freeware space flight simulator
- Orbiter (video game), a 1986 educational video game
- ''Orbiter (comics), a graphic novel by Warren Ellis
- Echo Orbiter, an indie rock group
- Orbiter (camera seat), a camera technique
- Orbiter (ride), an amusement park ride
- Orbiter (Canada's Wonderland), a HUSS Skylab ride at Canada's Wonderland
- Orbiter 3, see Breitling Orbiter
- Winds Italia Orbiter, an Italian paramotor design
An orbiter is a space probe that orbits a planet or other astronomical object. An orbiter can be either man-made, or created naturally..
Orbiter (formerly known as Sol Loco) is a HUSS SkyLab at Canada's Wonderland in Ontario, Canada. The ride opened in 1981 for the park's first operating season. The ride closed in 2006 and was partially dismantled but was re-built and re-opened later that season following the sale of Paramount's amusement park chain to Cedar Fair.
The Orbiter in the sense of camera technique is a camera seat with a seated cameraman, swivelling on a low working height.
A swivelling seat of the Orbiter is characterized by a patented principle of partial separation of the camera and the movable/swivelling seat. This ensures the natural vibrations of the camera operator to be absorbed and they are therefore transferred to the camera to a very small extent. The separation is achieved by a special mounting technique of the swivelling seat, due to which the occurring vibrations are transferred from the centre of the system to the external feet.
With the currently used focal lengths of telephoto lens with up to x101 zoom an optimum vibration resistance is vital for stable pictures. The closer the lens zooms on the object the more stable the camera support has to be. Otherwise the picture could wobble. The natural vibrations caused by the footwork of the cameraman are therefore unwanted and have to be kept away from the camera. Apart from the mechanical separation mentioned above, additional absorption membranes were inserted into the Orbiter system in the process of its development to ensure further picture stability.
In the process of construction and testing two things had to be considered simultaneously. Firstly, that the swivelling seat cannot be mounted on the centre camera column (in order to prevent mechanical overload and to reduce vibrations). Secondly, that the panning of the camera must take place on the same axis as the rotation of the swivelling seat. The existing systems do not combine both of the above mentioned principles of construction implemented in the Orbiter system.
The name ‘Orbiter’ was judged to be fitting for the positioning on the market and chosen to be the name of the product on multiple grounds. The cameraman is, in fact, in orbit around the camera. On the other hand, in the medical jargon, orbital means ‘concerning an eyeball’. A camera is indeed an electronic eye.
Based on its performance, efficiency and failure resistance the Orbiter system became worldwide the most successful camera seat in terms of sales. It is being required by many sports associations for TV productions. During the European soccer championships at UEFA EURO 2004, 2008, 2012 as well as the FIFA world and confederations cup 2005 + 2006 and 2009 + 2010 FIFA and UEFA exclusively trusted the Orbiter system for their competitions, which is now FIFA, UEFA and Deutsche Fußball Liga approved. Production companies for German Bundesliga are obliged to use the Orbiter 500 ultraflat for all cameras at the sideline to minimise sight restrictions. Since 2011 the Orbiter 270 stadium is being applied at camel races, mounted on top of 4WD vehicles providing live footage from camel races transmitted by wireless links. Since 2011 Orbiter.tv is developing a customised version for videotaping starts of spacecraft at launch pads of Ariane space in French Guiana handling a number of different camera types including high speed cameras for analysis.
Early after its launch there appeared a Chinese 1:1 copy and a Dutch partial copy of the Orbiter at various fairs of the TV business branch, which could neither match the high standards of the German manufacturers in terms of quality nor reach the sales numbers of the original.
Usage examples of "orbiter".
Frictional heating surrounded the racing orbiter with a blaze of ionized gases.
The orbiter was entering the atmosphere more steeply after the correction, instead of less steeply.
Wilmer and Jenny and facing away from the front of the orbiter, felt a new wave of uncertainty rising within her.
Normally the weather reports for a returning orbiter were provided by ground control, with access to metsat and to ground radar data.
By her side the orbiter was nose-down and buried deep in a bank of snow that had damped the force of its collison.
Even orbiter specialists expected a runway twice as long and wide as this one.
The chips in that orbiter were a long way from Earth when the pulse hit.
We had to adapt an orbiter using our own equipment and programs, and this was the only landing site that we could reach.
In the great orbiter mission to Mars in 1971 there had been no attempt to land on the planet itself, and since the Mariner remained aloft, taking from a distance those remarkable photographs which delighted the scientific world, there was no worry about safe landing sites.
Carl Sagan and Hal Mazursky, the superbrain, bit their lips, and white-haired Jim Martin crossed his fingers and gave the signal to detach the small lander from the bigger orbiter which had brought it safely across so many millions of miles.
Seconds before, Endeavour had reached Max Q, the point during launch of greatest aerodynamic stress, when the orbiter, thrusting against the resistance of the atmosphere, begins to violently vibrate.
Then Kittredge would pitch the orbiter around to a heads-up attitude, pointing back toward the launch site.
Now she felt the dizzying spin as the orbiter began its pitcharound maneuver, rolling tail over nose.
The orbiter was flying free now, a fat and awkward bird gliding homeward.
They were in radio blackout, twelve long minutes of silence when the friction of reentry ionizes the air around the orbiter, cutting off all communications.