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Starlink is a civilian service that uses satellites in low Earth orbit to provide internet access, particularly in remote areas.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Around the same time, after the Journal began questioning people in Nxum’s orbit, Dennis accused Vincer of telling “lies” to the press about their business agreement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Potter now expects AST SpaceMobile to have 18 satellites in orbit by the end of 2026, down from his previous estimate of 45.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

On October 3, Pyongyang test-fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile that Kim Yo Jong said employed unspecified artificial intelligence technology and was "capable of changing its flight orbit at a low altitude".

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

This figure is an average, as the Earth’s orbit is an ellipse.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

“Everything orbits around Shohei, in the sense of his talent,” Roberts said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Now in its initial orbital mission, Starship is expected to fly at an altitude about 275 kilometers above Earth and complete as many as six orbits around the planet over the course of several hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The mission is set to complete approximately six orbits around the planet over a 10-hour flight.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Elias 2-24 b, by comparison, orbits about 10 times farther from its star.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Though Copernicus’s system didn’t agree with the data completely—the circular orbits were wrong, though the heliocentric idea was correct—it was much simpler than the Ptolemaic system.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

As those components orbited the star, they could produce highly unusual, non natural variations in brightness that would stand out from the behavior of ordinary stars.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

Other astronauts have orbited the Moon - most recently the crew of Nasa's Artemis II mission, which splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean earlier this month.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

Back in 1968, Apollo 8 orbited the Moon 10 times without landing.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

Among the many faulty narratives that orbited out of the government, one asked us to consider the mental anguish suffered by these dispatched officers.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026

Skylab, a 77-ton, 26-meter-long chunk of metal, had orbited Earth for six years.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

Four new crew members for the ISS docked at the orbiting laboratory last week and will stay for approximately six months.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The job of the orbiting receivers now was to determine in a split second which of Aurich’s variations would work in that particular scenario.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system are known as exoplanets.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Now Meink was saying we have systems that can do this “on orbit”—that is, while orbiting in outer space.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

I tried to push away what was in store by lying back and imagining the ceiling was the unmapped surface of a G-class planet orbiting Alpha Centauri.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell