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Startups are working on data centers in orbit, power systems and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

During the rocket’s next launch, the vehicle will attempt to deploy working Starlink satellites into orbit for the first time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

While SpaceX prepares to put its Starship rocket in orbit for the first time, foreign countries like China are looking to develop their own technology to rival Elon Musk’s company.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 20, 2026

See more: SpaceX’s Starship is finally set for orbit.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 20, 2026

In theory the Vanguard should have made it into orbit.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

College-educated transplants would flood to the orbits of Austin, Houston, and Dallas.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026

Starship is set to fly at an altitude of about 275 kilometers above Earth and complete six orbits around the planet.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, orbits at about 300 miles above Earth's surface.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

The star, named S301, orbits so dangerously close to the black hole that scientists believe it can shed light on this unimaginably powerful cosmic monster -- and test out Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

However, for orbits whose lengths were not a whole number of wavelengths, each wave crest would eventually be canceled out by a trough as the electrons went round; these orbits would not be allowed.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

After her death, Sir Richard described his wife as the "shining star around which our family's universe has always orbited".

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Back in 1968, Apollo 8 orbited the Moon 10 times without landing.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

Among the many faulty narratives that orbited out of the government, one asked us to consider the mental anguish suffered by these dispatched officers.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026

He added that as the galaxies orbited one another and moved toward the superheated gas cloud surrounding the Virgo cluster, which reaches temperatures about 200 times hotter than the Sun's surface, they experienced "ram pressure."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2025

Lying on my stomach across the bed, I watched how they orbited the space in the jar, around and around like they’d missed the exit.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

Now Meink was saying we have systems that can do this “on orbit”—that is, while orbiting in outer space.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Once the crew reaches the International Space Station, the four astronauts will become part of Expedition 75, the station's long-duration crew responsible for research, maintenance, and other operations aboard the orbiting laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

She used GPS stations that received signals from more than 30 satellites orbiting Earth from roughly 25,000 kilometers away.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

About 30 minutes after launch, Roman separated from its SpaceX rocket and is now heading towards its orbiting point around a million miles away.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

She watched the men in the dust of the Moon and thought of the orbiting command service module, out of view of the camera, circling the Moon every ninety minutes.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly