orbital

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Its Falcon 9 rocket launched 165 times in 2025, accounting for more than half of all orbital launches worldwide.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Analysts say SpaceX’s orbital data center and chip-making plans could easily cost trillions of dollars to pull off.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

Extremely risky orbital reconstruction surgery was a possibility, along with a donor nerve, or a full donor eye.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Aetherflux, a space startup developing orbital data centers, is raising a new funding round at a $2 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the situation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The atom as a whole carried a neutral charge: the negative charges of its orbital electrons balanced the positive charge of the nucleus, the latter created by an excess of protons over electrons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik