orbit

Perhaps the most important changes in technology are happening in orbit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Raising Swift into a higher orbit could keep it operating for even longer.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026

Making the vehicle fully reusable will better allow the company to improve its Starlink satellite-internet service and put data centers in orbit.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

Sculpting her natural gifts of wit and brazenness into a living artwork dazzled all who came within her orbit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

It was the first permanent space station, staying in orbit for 13 years, until the opening of the International Space Station.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

Following the successful gravity assist, the spacecraft is now traveling directly toward asteroid Psyche, which orbits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026

The company projects Starship will begin launching to lower-Earth orbits in the second half of this year, but it isn’t clear when the company could get its rockets to the orbits required by StormWall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Donaldjohanson has remained in the asteroid belt since its formation, while Bennu and Ryugu eventually migrated into near-Earth orbits that periodically bring them close to our planet.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026

This tilt causes the amount of sunlight that reaches different regions of Earth to change throughout the year as it orbits the Sun.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

They could predict the orbits of the planets and the motion of objects with great accuracy.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

As those components orbited the star, they could produce highly unusual, non natural variations in brightness that would stand out from the behavior of ordinary stars.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 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

The Sentinel-1 satellites that Peter uses orbited over Halley Bay, taking pictures of the ice sheet.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024

Moreover, it had a full set of phases, proof that it orbited the sun, as in the systems of Copernicus and Tycho Brahe.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The planet, called LHS 1140 b, is 48 light-years from Earth orbiting a red star much smaller and cooler than our Sun.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Researchers have found the first atmosphere surrounding an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Previous population models predicted that roughly 4 to 5 closely orbiting white dwarf and red dwarf systems should exist in this region.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

Their work expanded on Niels Bohr's early atomic model, which pictured electrons orbiting the nucleus much like planets orbit the sun.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Me and Mom and Dad are planets orbiting the Sun.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio