Orbit around Earth with an altitude between 160 kilometers and 2,000 kilometers.
1As seen from low earth orbit, the upper atmosphere now looked dandruffy.
2A launch into low earth orbit, a flyby past ISS, and then reentry.
3Upstart space launch company SpaceX has also talked about delivering passengers to low earth orbit.
4NASA is expected announce at least two companies to fly astronauts to low earth orbit by 2017.
5Sierra Nevada, Boeing and SpaceX are developing vehicles to fly astronauts to low earth orbit for NASA.
6Mendell explains that launching enough sightseers into low earth orbit to support a hospitality industry boils down to economics.
7The launch is a flight-test of a reusable vehicle that will provide service for visits to low earth orbit.
8The CST-100 is part of NASA's program to use commercial space transportation for future manned missions to low earth orbit.
9The space agency will be contracting out more routine spaceflights to low earth orbit, including the ISS, to private companies.
10Orbital Sciences and SpaceX are the two companies currently with contracts with NASA to deliver cargo to low earth orbit.
11The project, Stratolaunch Systems, will use an air-launched booster rocket to deliver cargo, and eventually people, into low earth orbit.
12The passenger flights will take place on commercial trips aboard the Boeing Crew Space Transportation-100 spacecraft to low earth orbit.
13The Sherpa is designed to provide as much as 400 meters per second change in orbital velocity for low earth orbit.
14SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will carry three new Earth-observing satellites for the Canadian Space Agency RADARSAT's mission into low earth orbit.
15One of the biggest challenges to putting things into low earth orbit is the amount of energy required to get there.
16Orion is a capsule being built by Lockheed Martin for NASA missions beyond low earth orbit, namely asteroids and eventually Mars.
Translations for low earth orbit