What is "planetward"

Usage examples of "planetward".

He shifted it to space, so that it would pick up calls going planetward, instead of listening vainly for replies from the non-operative landing-grid.

When decoys sent planetward failed to draw fire, the landing force was launched.

Kator breached the moon surface just over the site of the Expedition Headquarters and took off planetward in a small, single-man ship.

In the quiet that it left behind, parts of the broken and silent remnants of the hi-comms relays began drifting planetward like falling stars.

The slow but powerful KDY platforms were breaking up concentrations of enemy ships, preventing the invaders from mounting any sort of planetward thrust.

Mara and Luke watched until the brilliance dimmed enough to reveal individual pieces of debris fluttering planetward, but there was no way to know whether the vessel had been New Republic or Yuuzhan Vong.

Their mad race planetward floundered as the shock wave of superheated air slammed across their bows.

The disk had been disengaged from the ship, and as it drifted planetward, the vessel accelerated.

But by that time the asault troops were falling planetward, dropping down on city and military installation and police station behind the curtain of night as it swung around the big, but swiftly-turning world.

It had to be brought down with no more acceleration planetward than a ship's company could endure.