orbit
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Starlink has about 9,600 satellites in orbit now, which is about 15 times as many as the orbital fleet of the next largest satellite service provider, according to estimates from New Street Research.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Primarily, Starship is expected to serve SpaceX, allowing the company to send satellites, including more advanced models, to orbit more quickly.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
According to a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a ring-shaped area just beyond Jupiter's orbit acted as both an efficient and remarkably versatile "breeding ground" for planetesimals.
From Science Daily • May 26, 2026
But if you can dig and play from your soul, this instrument just becomes a vessel of sound and orbit, bro, it’s over.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
Mercury's orbit, for instance, wobbled in a way that disagreed with what Newton predicted, but on the whole, Newton’s theories were tested again and again, and they usually passed.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing orbit
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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The Launch of Sputnik 1
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