Orbiter

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An orbiter is a spacecraft that orbits a planet or moon without landing on it in order to study the object's surface from a safe distance.

Additional uses of Orbiter are:

Space Shuttle Orbiter, the main component of the Space Shuttle.
Orbiter, a freeware space flight simulator

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