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Once in orbit, the chip will have to survive being bombarded by cosmic rays and solar events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

It’s a replica of the Tanager-1, but is on a different orbit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Continuously inhabited for the last quarter-century, the aging ISS is scheduled to be pushed out of Earth's orbit before crashing into one of Earth's oceans sometime around 2030.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

It takes around 76 years to complete one orbit of the Sun and was last seen from Earth in 1986.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

On February 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn walked out to the Friendship 7 rocket we hoped would place the first American in orbit.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

“Everything orbits around Shohei, in the sense of his talent,” Roberts said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Now in its initial orbital mission, Starship is expected to fly at an altitude about 275 kilometers above Earth and complete as many as six orbits around the planet over the course of several hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The rocket is aiming to make six orbits of Earth for the first time during a 10-hour flight, before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean to the west of Chile.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 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

There was much more to Copernican astronomy, for those with eyes to see, than the simple claim that the Earth orbits around the Sun.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

RXJ0528+2838 is a white dwarf, the leftover core of a dying low-mass star, and it is orbited by a Sun-like companion.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 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

But, all these years later, I was reminded that Ozzy, despite his well-crafted Prince of Darkness persona, was the sun that brought brightness and warmth to the familial chaos that orbited around him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025

DVDs and cases orbited in a ring around it, mostly Farsi-language dubs of Bollywood movies.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

The plan calls for the rocket to finish its journey in the Pacific Ocean after orbiting the Earth six times.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

Yet, despite having spent more than 30 years orbiting the same world, they have had surprisingly little time together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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

A globular cluster of stars, orbiting the galactic core.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan