1.   The shuttle also will nudge the observatory gently into a slighter higher orbit to extend its lifetime.

2.   Low orbits are ideal for disaster monitoring, as they provide greater accuracy than is possible from higher orbits.

3.   Now, however, all outward signs indicate that the investigation has moved into a higher orbit.

4.   So, the Progress spacecraft will be used to stabilize Mir in space and possibly boost it to a higher orbit.

5.   Simply boosting the observatory into a higher orbit is problematic as well.

6.   The flat-screen concept is about to go into a higher technological orbit with the plasma gas television.

7.   The satellite was flung into a higher orbit, and plans for two days of linked experiments in electromagnetism were interrupted after only a few hours.

8.   The Senate Whitewater hearings entered a higher orbit last week.

9.   The shuttle also was to nudge the station into a higher orbit until a critical Russian service module is finally launched in July.

10.   This would mean that rocket-launching companies could carry larger payloads into orbit and allow satellites to burn their own body parts to boost themselves into higher orbits.