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The space agency is weighing its commercial transport options to maintain a presence in low Earth orbit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Even more impacts are caused by microscopic objects, but the holes they produce are too small to see in images taken from orbit.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

He also said next week’s flight will be the first to generate revenue, since it will carry Starlink V3 satellites to orbit, something he called a “huge milestone.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Bowen adds that the Chinese have demonstrated "space tug capability", saying: "A vehicle can go up to a satellite, can grapple it and move it into a different orbit."

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Then, as he completed the orbit, he became the first person ever to see a second sunrise on the same day.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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

Mission controllers loaded a catalog containing approximately 20,000 space objects and their predicted orbits onto Starling.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted that a spinning black hole would drag spacetime along with it, twisting it in a way that changes the orbits of the surrounding stars.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Though Copernicus’s system didn’t agree with the data completely—the circular orbits were wrong, though the heliocentric idea was correct—it was much simpler than the Ptolemaic system.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

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

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

Then, in May, the Soviet Union orbited Sputnik III, weighing in at a whopping 2,925 pounds.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink declared this week that the United States has weapons orbiting in outer space.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Yet, despite having spent more than 30 years orbiting the same world, they have had surprisingly little time together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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

Coughlin notes that Hills capture may also be responsible for some of the stars now orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Systems are commonly double, two stars orbiting one another.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan