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A massive backlog of demand for server capacity pushed companies to pursue novel strategies to secure more of it, from renting chips from direct competitors to launching data centers into orbit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Yet many of the most notable tributes have centered less on Graham’s place in Trump’s orbit than on the relationships he cultivated over decades in public life.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

Chinese companies have launched satellites into orbit using single-use rockets, which can be costly and contribute to the increasing amount of potentially hazardous space junk.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

"The good news is that there are huge opportunities to explore and learn using both government and commercial satellite platforms already in orbit," said Jim Garvin, the chief scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

He didn’t orbit earth—he sped 116 miles up, reached space, and arced back through the atmosphere.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

The company projects Starship will begin launching to lower-Earth orbits in the second half of this year, but it isn’t clear when the company could get its rockets to the orbits required by StormWall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The image showcases LH 95, a vast star forming region inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Because of this ambiguity, astronomers classify it as a "planetary-mass companion," an object with planet-like mass that orbits a star.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

This tilt causes the amount of sunlight that reaches different regions of Earth to change throughout the year as it orbits the Sun.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

This vortex both held the planets in their orbits and pressed objects down towards the surface of the Earth.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Yet it was still an undoubted factor considering the team had orbited around Isak, who scored 27 goals in the previous season.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

Instead, huge amounts of rock and dust were passing in front of the star as they orbited the system, partially blocking the light traveling toward Earth.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 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

The gravity of relativity theory was brilliant at explaining why planets orbited suns or why galaxies tended to cluster, but turned out to have no influence at all at the particle level.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Hainaut called for the number of orbiting satellites to be limited to 100,000 -- and that they be made dim enough to be invisible to the naked eye.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Further analysis showed that every one of those signals originated from technology on Earth or from satellites orbiting our planet.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

Can orbiting data centers really power artificial intelligence?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

The report said that plans to build orbiting satellite data centers powered by the sun that would perform AI calculations were plausible but would require “uproven engineering to succeed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Like many other Americans, Katherine bridled at the reality of the Russians’ metal moon orbiting overhead.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly