11.   Sirius already has its three satellites in high elliptical orbits, ready for the start of services later this year.

12.   Sometimes they collide with each other and one ends up in an elliptical orbit that brings it closer to Earth.

13.   The looping elliptical orbits will expose the spacecraft to the drag of the Martian atmosphere.

14.   Will the earth continue in its elliptical orbit or will it wobble off?

15.   Engines of the cargo ship Progress, attached to Mir, fired twice to slow the spacecraft and put it into an elliptical orbit.

16.   The aim was to slow Mir and put it in an elliptical orbit.

17.   The Molniya-series communications satellite was to be carried into an elliptical orbit, said Vyacheslav Mikhailichenko, deputy chief of the Russian Space Agency.