constellation

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The company recently asked U.S. regulators to either waive a July 30 deadline or give it another two years to put half of its planned 3,232-satellite constellation in orbit.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

The company’s Starlink broadband product, built on a constellation of more than 10,000 satellites, already is profitable and has more than 10 million subscribers.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

“This constellation of foreign investment from China and from Gulf States, with complex and sometimes competing relationships with the United States, demands rigorous, not perfunctory review,” Booker and the others wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

The same chip was also used for a QPSK-based CV-QKD protocol, where information is encoded in a four-point constellation of quantum states.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

“For ten points, Sunny Brook, what constellation has an asterism made up of Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka?”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein