constellation
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Those satellites will attempt to connect with SpaceX’s Starlink constellation before expiring during re-entry.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 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
The top scorers at the 2026 World Cup are a constellation of the brightest names in soccer.
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
“We’re just putting up our favorites so we’ll feel more at home in our domestic pod here on Earth. What’s your favorite constellation? And do you have a name, Earthling?”
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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
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
“Space computing, the final frontier, has arrived. As we deploy satellite constellations and explore deeper into space, intelligence must live wherever data is generated,” Huang said at the time.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 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
“In the old days, there were more. Whole constellations have disappeared because of human light pollution.”
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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