constellation
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The upper stage deployed 20 Starlink V3 satellites, a test SpaceX said "will provide critical data as we prepare to expand our Starlink constellation" of the company's satellite internet service.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
The planet lies about 124 light years away in the constellation Leo and orbits within the habitable zone of a red dwarf star.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Entertaining the idea of such a large constellation would be a tough sell for almost any company.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
When Weinberg talks about fly fishing, he speaks of it less as a single hobby than a constellation of interests, where each angler finds their own corner to obsess over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
But then more lit up, and still more, until a whole constellation surged around us like a million green twinkling stars, lighting our bodies, reflecting in our masks.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
Satellite constellations operated separately from GPS such as Europe’s Galileo, terrestrial timing systems such as enhanced LORAN, and organizations maintaining their own resilient timing system would reduce dependence on a single vulnerable source.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 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
Cities are also cobbling together constellations of pocket parks in heart-of-the-city neighborhoods, a fraction of an acre here and there, enough, maybe, for a picnic table or a play space.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Day 874 A loss of the ship’s lock on the star Canopus—in the lore of constellations the rudder of a sailing vessel.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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