orbit
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The merger of SpaceX and xAi will finance Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence ambitions, including a futuristic plan to blast a million satellite data centers into orbit.
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
If successful, the technology could help small satellites venture far beyond Earth orbit.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
Outsiders would sometimes stumble across the Rocket Lab community and be swept up in its orbit.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
At the time appointed I sent the wake signal to the relay satellite, which was in stationary orbit about 300 miles over South Karhide.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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The Launch of Sputnik 1
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