Definitions for orbiting vehicle
or·bit·ing ve·hi·cle

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1. Orbiting Vehicle

   Orbiting Vehicle or OV, originally designated SATAR (SATellite - Atmospheric Research), comprised five disparate series of standardized American satellites operated by the US Air Force, launched between 1965 and 1971. Forty seven satellites were built, of which forty three were launched and thirty seven reached orbit. With the exception of the OV3 series and OV4-3, they were launched as secondary payloads, using excess space on other missions. This resulted in extremely low launch costs and short proposal-to-orbit times. Typically, OV satellites carried scientific and/or technological experiments, 184 being successfully orbited through the lifespan of the program. The first OV series, designated OV1, was built by General Dynamics and carried on suborbital Atlas missile tests; the satellites subsequently placed themselves into orbit by means of an Altair-2 kick motor. The Northrop-built OV2 satellites were built using parts left over following the cancellation of the Advanced Research Environmental Test Satellite; three OV2 spacecraft flew on Titan IIIC test flights. Space General built the OV3 satellites, the only series to be launched on dedicated rockets; six were launched on Scout-B rockets between 1966 and 1967. OV4 satellites were launched as part of a test flight for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), with two satellites conducting a communications experiment whilst a third, OV4-3, was the primary payload, a boilerplate mockup of the MOL space station. Two further OV4 satellites, duplicates of the first two, were built but not launched. OV5 satellites were launched as secondary payloads on Titan IIIC rockets as part of the Environmental Research Satellite program. The OV program was phased out in the late 1960s, the last of the series (an OV1) flying in 1971. It was succeeded by the Space Test Program, which focused on tailored satellites with specific payloads rather than standardized ones.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of orbiting vehicle in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of orbiting vehicle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of orbiting vehicle in a Sentence

1. Miguel Miranda:

   Details remain vague on this inspector satellite, but the main concern is its able to launch small payloads towardanother orbiting vehicle, going by that alone, it does seem to have an offensive role, and this is what the U.S. military is concerned about.

References

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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Vehicle