orbiters
Revolving space probes
Orbiters are spacecraft designed to circle a celestial body rather than land on it: The Mars orbiters sent back detailed surface images.
In social contexts, orbiters are people who hover around someone they're attracted to, maintaining proximity without direct pursuit: She has a whole group of orbiters in her DMs.
Bodies circling larger ones
- probesInvestigative examinations
- spacecraftVehicle for outer space
- CassiniSaturn mission namesake
- JunoJupiter's divine consort
modules · payloads · missions · trajectory · altitude · telemetry · instruments · sensors
Bodies orbiting planets
- planetsStar-orbiting celestial bodies
- asteroidsSmall solar orbiters
- cometsIcy bodies orbiting stars
- celestial bodiesObjects in outer space
binary stars · gravitational · elliptical · revolution · period · inclination · eccentricity · Kepler
People who appreciate someone
- followersPeople who support someone
- hangers-onThose who cling opportunistically
- fansArdent admirers or coolers
- groupiesObsessive celebrity followers
suitors · devotees · peripheral · entourage · acquaintances · lurkers · sycophants · wannabes
satellites
Bodies circling larger ones
- probesInvestigative examinations
- spacecraftVehicle for outer space
- CassiniSaturn mission namesake
Juno · modules · payloads · missions · trajectory · altitude · telemetry · instruments · sensors · antenna
moons
Bodies orbiting planets
celestial bodies · binary stars · gravitational · elliptical · revolution · period · inclination · eccentricity · Kepler · barycenter
admirers
People who appreciate someone
- followersPeople who support someone
- hangers-onThose who cling opportunistically
- fansArdent admirers or coolers
groupies · suitors · devotees · peripheral · entourage · acquaintances · lurkers · sycophants · wannabes · attention-seekers
- aerospaceairplane, helicopter, rocket, rockets, spacecraft
- spacecraftspacecraft, starships, spaceship, Voyager 1, rocket ships
- Mars studyMars, red planet, surface features, canals, craters
- Space roboticsMars rovers, robotic arms, rovers, robot arms, space probes
- Venus MissionsMagellan, Akatsuki, lander