orbit
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The spaceship will actually swing around the Moon without entering its orbit by following a carefully planned trajectory.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
The U.S. could keep powerful munitions in orbit to be deployed quickly and without risk to American troops.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
Even Apollo astronauts didn't see the Orientale basin completely because of their orbit and illumination conditions.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
Voyager 2 needed more than nine and a half years just to fly past the planet, without attempting to enter orbit.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 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
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