orbital
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Electron spin and orbital motion become coupled, causing the energies of the Landau levels to evolve in a nonlinear way as the magnetic field changes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
The push by SpaceX and others to develop orbital data centers, designed to feature swarms of satellites laden with artificial-intelligence chips, could bring the total to roughly 1.5 million satellites, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
A separate set of experiments tested whether the spacecraft could improve orbital estimates for the objects it observed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Wood Mackenzie, a research firm, estimates that a one-gigawatt orbital data center would cost $170 billion, more than triple the cost of a traditional data center.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Ironically, though, while Newton was distracted from following up his ideas about gravity, in 1674 Hooke had struck to the heart of the problem of orbital motion.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing orbital
Chemistry - High School
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