orbit
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Once launched, Starship will meet Orion in orbit and remain docked for approximately one day while engineers and astronauts carry out additional testing and system evaluations.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
Mark, did “Disclosure Day” manage to pull you back into Spielberg’s orbit this time?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
He launched aboard Soyuz MS-22 on Sept. 21, 2022, and returned on Sept. 27, 2023, after spending 371 days in orbit, setting the record for the longest single space mission by an American astronaut.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
High rocket-launch costs have historically been the key barrier to entry, and SpaceX has led the effort to make it cheaper to get into orbit with its Falcon 9.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
Now, in orbit, they were an endless multitude.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
Vocabulary lists containing orbit
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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The Launch of Sputnik 1
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