trajectories

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This extra resistance can gradually alter satellite trajectories and cause some spacecraft to lose altitude faster than expected.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Citi favors data infrastructure companies and hyperscalers with clear growth trajectories, including MongoDB, Snowflake, Palantir, and Microsoft.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

"With the rise of wearables and long-term tracking in humans, I'm excited to see whether the same principles -- early predictors, staged aging, divergent trajectories -- hold true in people."

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

He’s discredited the idea that the two politicians have some kind of a sibling rivalry and noted that their trajectories ran adjacent and never collided.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

They spent one week each month at the Palomar Observatory in California looking for objects, asteroids primarily, whose trajectories carried them across Earth’s orbit.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson