placed into orbit

One example of the wastefulness of manned missions is the Hubble Space Telescope, which was placed into orbit in 1990 by the space shuttle.

It will be placed into orbit 700 kilometres above Earth, where its main instrument will point constantly towards our planet’s night side so that its view of space is uninterrupted by sunlight.

Then the Cygnus will leave the space station, at which point the mini-satellites will be placed into orbit from a deployer with springs that will push them out into space.

Then the Cygnus will leave the space station, at which point the mini-satellites will be placed into orbit from a deployer with springs that will push them out into space.

Placed into orbit from a manned Discovery shuttle and named for the pioneering American astronomer Edwin Hubble, it became the first large optical telescope in space.