orbit
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While it did not fly into exactly the correct orbit, Huot said it was travelling along a trajectory that was "within bounds".
From BBC • May 23, 2026
The space ship is designed to cut the cost of reaching orbit by 90% or more.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
But on the weeks when I have a little more energy — a little more calendar wiggle room, a little more curiosity — I try to widen my grocery orbit.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
TOI-199b orbits a star located more than 330 light years from Earth and completes one orbit roughly every 100 days.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Think of the Earth’s orbit as a kind of freeway on which we are the only vehicle, but which is crossed regularly by pedestrians who don’t know enough to look before stepping off the curb.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing orbit
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