orbit
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“The Mandalorian and Grogu” will see the duo take on a job from the New Republic that brings them into the orbit of a familiar “Star Wars” crime family — the Hutts.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
Getting Starship running regularly and reliably will eventually enable SpaceX to reduce the cost of reaching orbit by 99% or more compared with historical average costs, the company said in the filing.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
The findings come from Juno's microwave radiometer, an instrument that has been studying Jupiter's atmosphere since the spacecraft entered orbit around the giant planet in 2016.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
Its reusable rocket technology has reduced the cost of launching payloads to orbit.
From Barron's • May 20, 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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The Launch of Sputnik 1
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