Wikipedia
A parking orbit is a temporary orbit used during the launch of a satellite or other space probe. A launch vehicle boosts into the parking orbit, then coasts for a while, then fires again to enter the final desired trajectory. The alternative to a parking orbit is direct injection, where the rocket fires continuously (except during staging) until its fuel is exhausted, ending with the payload on the final trajectory.
Usage examples of "parking orbit".
Spacecraft arriving from Earth would naturally settle into a parking orbit around Mars with not much inclination to the equator.
I'm betting there's either something here on Montana he absolutely has to do, or else he didn't realize we were here until it was too late to do anything but come on in and ask for a parking orbit of his own.
From the freighter in parking orbit at Ziva Two, maybe, slipped in with parts and equipment needed to complete the station?
But to be sureto reassure youI selected that barge because it will be taken out of parking orbit and landed when India is faced toward me, and I've added an override so that I can take you away from ground control if I don't like the way they handle you.
As he approached Earth, he called traffic control and asked for a parking orbit, as he did not wish to put the Chili down.
Within the rectangular bay of the closer dock, Franc could make out tiny spacecraft, while others hovered in parking orbit nearby.