For years, commercial theater and nonprofit theater existed in entirely separate orbits.

Thirty minutes later, a spring-loaded device sent the two spheres into separate orbits.

The three separate orbits are spaced equally around the Earth, but share a common ground track.

Any parts of Mir not at exactly the same distance from Earth tended to follow separate orbits.

Upon reaching orbit, the two spacecraft departed from the booster and entered separate orbits.

We must therefore launch all the lifecraft except Number Two into separate orbits, so that a properly-staffed and properly-equipped force may study that field.

For a few moments, packs of reporters, supporters and onlookers circled in separate orbits.

Like a nebulus spinning into separate orbits, the former international clubbers found a new gravitational tug in the city's charities.

The strong tidal pull of the neutron star is trying to force the ends of the ship (and Shaeffer himself) into two separate orbits.

We've been around this planet four times in four separate orbits, and that's the highest form of life on any of the continents.