orbit
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SpaceX, which competes with OpenAI and Anthropic following its xAI merger, plans to deploy data centers in orbit.
From Barron's • May 30, 2026
Just over 300 Amazon Leo satellites are currently in orbit, all of them lifted by SpaceX, United Launch Alliance and Arianespace rather than by Blue Origin itself.
From BBC • May 29, 2026
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
Hot Jupiters are giant gas planets that orbit extremely close to their stars, even closer than Mercury orbits the Sun.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
The Mir Space Station wasn’t the first or only space station to orbit Earth, but it was the longest-lasting one, withstanding 15 years and 86,000 orbits.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
Vocabulary lists containing orbit
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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The Launch of Sputnik 1
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