orbiting

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Orbiting satellites with solar panels on the dusk/dawn line have constant sunlight.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

The first Orbiting Carbon Observatory was readied for launch in February 2009.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2025

Orbiting its host star twelve times closer than Mercury orbits our Sun, it receives more than 4,000 times the Sun's radiation on Earth.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2024

Orbiting near Ganymede and Europa, two of the other largest Jovian moons, and the planet itself, Io’s mineral composition is constantly pulled and pushed by gravity, creating frictional heat deep inside the moon.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023

Orbiting several hundred kilometers above the planet are two satellites, each the size of a half-loaf of bread, measuring bursts of light-speed electrons that sometimes rain into the atmosphere.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 8, 2022