constellation
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Carbon Mapper’s goal is to prevent the equivalent of a billion tons of carbon dioxide every year with a constellation of satellites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
All the defendants will also likely blame Walker for her own condition, given that she suffered from a constellation of issues before becoming pregnant.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
The vehicle carried 26 satellites that SpaceX added to its current constellation, which delivers internet service to customers around the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
SpaceX wants Starship to deploy 26 Starlink V3 spacecraft on the flight, each of which will add 1 terabits per second of capacity to the existing Starlink satellite-internet constellation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Looking up at the constellation of garbage, it was as though gravity had abandoned the place and all that junk simply floated, magically free, above our heads.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Over 15 days, they learnt to identify stars, planets and constellations, navigate the night sky, operate telescopes and photograph the Milky Way on their phones.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
They show them the Moon's craters, Saturn's rings, Vega - the brightest star in the night sky - and other planets, using laser pointers to trace constellations and objects visible to the naked eye.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
U.S. companies and government agencies have set out ambitious plans to deploy their own constellations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Starship's enormous payload capacity and planned rapid reuse make it well suited for ambitious projects such as lunar bases, Mars missions, and massive satellite constellations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
In an unknown ocean they could determine their latitude, but not their longitude, by observing, night after night, the position of the constellations with respect to the horizon.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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