constellation
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Entertaining the idea of such a large constellation would be a tough sell for almost any company.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
The number of satellites orbiting Earth has now reached 14,000 after surging in recent years, many of them part of trillionaire Elon Musk's Starlink internet constellation.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Iridium currently operates a 66-satellite constellation in low-Earth orbit, using it to connect handsets and other devices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The newly confirmed planets, TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c, orbit an F7-type dwarf star about 1,110 light years from Earth in the southern constellation Volans.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 27, 2026
Clean night air flows through a constellation of gaps in the rock ceiling, and I can barely make out the stars.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
The tubes’ openings frame the sunrise and sunset on solstice days, while the perforations admit light onto their interior walls in the pattern of certain constellations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The study is the first to calculate how much the constellations of big and particularly bright satellites being planned would impact astronomical observations by making the night sky brighter.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Although satellite constellations such as Starlink and Amazon Leo have demonstrated that doing this is possible, the amount of data sent to and from space would balloon.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
Then Golding wrote, “Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
“I was casting constellations with Director Horus last night and I asked him about that meeting we found on Quinton’s computer.”
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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