At least one such satellite has been called into action from a parking orbit.
The probe is in a parking orbit, waiting for that to happen.
With a parking orbit, these can often be increased up to several hours.
But they'll let me take up a parking orbit, he thought.
In fact, she was little more than half an hour out of parking orbit, though he wasn't really supposed to know that.
Do not attempt to board this or any other ship left in parking orbit.
This was not a problem on a lunar mission because of the short stay in the parking orbit.
There would be no need to break the former battleship out of her parking orbit.
They appear to be in a parking orbit around the planet Saturn.
However, the core of 1402 did not boost itself into parking orbit.
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