11.   Thousands of dead spacecraft and abandoned metal parts, as well as an unknown number of smaller ones, perhaps ranging to the millions, are orbiting the earth.

12.   Weather satellites orbiting the earth also gather reams of data for the climate researchers.

13.   A renegade cosmonaut insists on remaining aboard, declaring he will orbit the earth for the rest of his days.

14.   He was orbiting the earth.

15.   It was to orbit earth for about a year testing how commercial components such as microchips, batteries and solar cells perform in outer space.

16.   It will orbit earth for about a year testing how commercial components such as microchips, batteries and solar cells perform in outer space.

17.   The first craft orbited earth for a day, the second for a week.

18.   Two other experimental satellites have reportedly failed to properly orbit the earth.

19.   DASH and the rocket section were now simply orbiting the earth, Moriuma said.

20.   The Times noted that the telescope is not orbiting the earth like Hubble, but is situated in a muddy field near Cambridge, central England.