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[awr-bit] / ˈɔr bɪt /




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The spaceship will continue to reach Earth's orbit, where it will deploy 26 satellites into Musk's Starlink satellite internet constellation that has become a major revenue stream for SpaceX.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

Shares of some Nvidia competitors, including AMD and Broadcom, advanced, while other companies in its orbit such as Micron and CoreWeave took a hit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Isar became in September the first privately financed European company to get a rocket into orbit.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

Although the robot carried out the assembly operations automatically, the researchers monitored its progress using photographs transmitted from orbit.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

What was particularly impressive about the full Copernican model of the Universe was that by putting the Earth in orbit around the Sun it automatically put the planets into a logical sequence.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

The AOP now plans on recognising their achievements with a new LED dome, which will show the asteroids and their orbits.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Poulson, the princess and Cantacuzino enter one another’s orbits, part ways, then reappear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

"The exosatellite is clearly massive enough to be a planet, but it does not orbit a star, though it orbits an object that orbits a star," says Hoy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Their path to advancement might look less like a straight line and more like some of the pressure distributions and orbits they plotted, but they were determined to take a seat at the table.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

And even if Avedon hadn’t been the charismatic figure we meet during the documentary, he orbited much the same world as the other people who needed no first names—Chaplin, Picasso, Kissinger, Warhol, Dylan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

After her death, Sir Richard described his wife as the "shining star around which our family's universe has always orbited".

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

As those components orbited the star, they could produce highly unusual, non natural variations in brightness that would stand out from the behavior of ordinary stars.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

Back in 1968, Apollo 8 orbited the Moon 10 times without landing.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

Maybe even Mae Jemison had seen this very tree as she’d orbited Earth 126 times in the space shuttle Endeavour.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

"This companion is orbiting so close to the star that it actually passes through its extended atmosphere," Matthews explained.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Tyson and other scientists warn that these orbiting machines will make it increasingly difficult to do astronomical research from Earth—and, eventually, will render the night sky unrecognizable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Nearby you’ll see the Apollo-Soyuz Command Module, which American astronauts Tom Stafford, Deke Slayton and Vance D. Brand flew to meet with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft orbiting Earth in 1975.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

An exosatellite is a natural satellite located beyond our Solar System, while the term exomoon generally refers to a natural satellite orbiting a planet or another celestial body outside our Solar System.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

I must’ve gotten thrown off by the endless geek rants about globular clusters orbiting galactic cores, rants that I see are being kept under wraps in present company.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson


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