orbit
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Batygin and Brown argued that something with a large gravitational pull must be affecting their orbit, and proposed planet nine as a potential explanation.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
Defense officials have discussed how they could use Starship, the massive rocket SpaceX is developing to deploy bigger payloads to orbit and conduct deeper space missions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Analysts say this too is a calculated effort by Beijing to pull Pyongyang back into its orbit.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
Continuously inhabited for the last quarter-century, the aging ISS is scheduled to be pushed into Earth's orbit before crashing into an isolated spot in the Pacific Ocean in 2030.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
Not surprisingly, it took years to solve the riddle of the orbit of Mars, with Kepler moving in stages away from the idea of a perfectly circular orbit centred on the Sun.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing orbit
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The Launch of Sputnik 1
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