constellation
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Europe's most powerful rocket Ariane 6 successfully released 32 satellites into orbit Thursday for Amazon's internet constellation, which is bidding to rival Elon Musk's giant Starlink.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
It isn’t easy to build a satellite constellation without launch capacity.
From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026
Named after the constellation of Lyra where they appear to originate from, the shower peaks on 22 April.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Canada’s MDA has a $1.1 billion contract with Globalstar as its prime contractor on the low Earth orbit constellation, which Globalstar operates and Apple uses for its own satellite connection.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
They circled each other playfully before settling to the right among a cluster of smaller stars, forming a new constellation just below Ursa Major—woman and her two children, forever reunited in the sky.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Vocabulary lists containing constellation
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