orbit
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Those can be overcome with Starship, a mega-rocket that SpaceX said can carry more than four times as much payload to low-Earth orbit as the Falcon 9.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
If successful, the technology could help small satellites venture far beyond Earth orbit.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
Starship is so heavy that it cannot reach the Moon withot being refuelled in Earth orbit first.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
The White House wants to put nuclear propulsion systems into orbit as soon as 2028.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
It was known that planets were inclined to orbit in a particular kind of oval known as an ellipse–"a very specific and precise curve," to quote Richard Feynman–but it wasn’t understood why.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing orbit
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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The Launch of Sputnik 1
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