orbit
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Starlink has a significant head-start on Amazon's Leo, which currently only has around 200 satellites in orbit.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
It also recently received permission to put another few thousand satellites into orbit by 2035.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
Artemis III will stick in near-Earth orbit — closer to where the International Space Station sits as opposed to traveling into deep space like Artemis II.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026
Officials have framed the mission as both a technical milestone and a proof of concept for the systems needed to safely transport astronauts beyond low Earth orbit and back again.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
According to this concept you first needed to blast out of the atmosphere and stabilize a mother spacecraft inside of Earth’s orbit.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
Vocabulary lists containing orbit
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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Eclipse Vocabulary
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The Launch of Sputnik 1
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