orbit
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It will orbit the planet and complete 49 close flybys of Europa.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
BeiDou, with 56 satellites deployed across three types of orbit, offers more resiliency than GPS, which relies on 31 satellites in medium Earth orbit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Making the vehicle fully reusable will better allow the company to improve its Starlink satellite-internet service and put data centers in orbit.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Sculpting her natural gifts of wit and brazenness into a living artwork dazzled all who came within her orbit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Mercury's orbit, for instance, wobbled in a way that disagreed with what Newton predicted, but on the whole, Newton’s theories were tested again and again, and they usually passed.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
During the mission, they completed 3,856 orbits of Earth and traveled more than 102 million miles.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
The company projects Starship will begin launching to lower-Earth orbits in the second half of this year, but it isn’t clear when the company could get its rockets to the orbits required by StormWall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
First discovered in 2013, the Pink Planet, formally known as GJ 504 b, orbits a Sun-like star about 57 light-years from Earth.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
This tilt causes the amount of sunlight that reaches different regions of Earth to change throughout the year as it orbits the Sun.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
But no matter how hard he tried, the solids and the planetary orbits did not agree well.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Yet it was still an undoubted factor considering the team had orbited around Isak, who scored 27 goals in the previous season.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 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
"As with other stars orbited by exoplanets, the observed light curve of WASP-39 is flatter than previous models can explain," she adds.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2024
Vonetta and Fern had been good earlier, watching and listening as the space shuttle orbited around the moon, taking its time to fire off another rocket to land.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
Even so, it appears to be the smallest of the three known giant planets orbiting the star.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Previous research has identified rocky planets orbiting within the habitable zones of their stars.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
This describes a phenomenon where a star wobbles back and forth, indicating a massive companion object is orbiting.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The University of Warwick team used the Hubble Space Telescope to pinpoint the small, dim stars orbiting in double systems within 65 light years of Earth.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
A few drifted over, lazily orbiting the jar.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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The Launch of Sputnik 1
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