orbit
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SpaceX and Blue Origin see a big future for data centers in orbit, hoping to tap in to solar power to satisfy the facilities’ immense power needs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Tuesday’s guidance stipulates that various federal agencies will establish cost-effective partnerships with private-sector companies to deploy nuclear reactors in orbit “as early as 2028” and on the Moon by 2030.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
It also recently received permission to put another few thousand satellites into orbit by 2035.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
Even with Globalstar's currently active constellation of about 50 satellites, Amazon Leo will need to significantly ramp up production to meet its goal of thousands of active satellites in orbit by 2028.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
Similarly, Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel predicted the existence of Neptune on the basis of anomalies in the orbit of Uranus.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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