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Designed to deploy nearly 52,000 pounds to low-Earth orbit with a reusable booster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

See more: SpaceX’s Starship is finally set for orbit.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 20, 2026

While SpaceX prepares to put its Starship rocket in orbit for the first time, foreign countries like China are looking to develop their own technology to rival Elon Musk’s company.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 20, 2026

Phobos' present-day gravity field, shape, density, spectral properties, and changing orbit must all be reconciled within a single geophysical model.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

The first space station, Salyut, was launched into orbit in 1971.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

College-educated transplants would flood to the orbits of Austin, Houston, and Dallas.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 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

Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021, also orbits the Sun around one million miles from Earth, but its field of vision is not as expansive.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

The team hopes that data from two complete orbits will allow them to determine the star's trajectory with enough precision they can also directly measure the black hole's rotation.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

The electrons only appeared in certain orbits because they only existed in certain orbits.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

He added that as the galaxies orbited one another and moved toward the superheated gas cloud surrounding the Virgo cluster, which reaches temperatures about 200 times hotter than the Sun's surface, they experienced "ram pressure."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2025

So, when Chandrayaan-3 was launched, it orbited the Earth several times before it was sling-shot into the lunar orbit, where it went around the Moon a few times before landing.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2024

Over the next four hours, fifty-five minutes, and twenty-three seconds, he orbited the world three times, at more than seventeen thousand miles per hour.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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

Planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system are known as exoplanets.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Directly imaging such planets is extraordinarily difficult because a host star can be billions of times brighter than the planet orbiting it.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

About 30 minutes after launch, Roman separated from its SpaceX rocket and is now heading towards its orbiting point around a million miles away.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

They are asking if I have been able to contact the orbiting satellite.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga