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orbital

[awr-bi-tl] / ˈɔr bɪ tl /


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Elon Musk’s company now plans to launch orbital data centers by the end of next year.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

This allowed the team to produce an image of the complete molecular orbital and distinguish features that are even smaller than the distance separating the carbon atoms within the molecule.

From Science Daily Aug. 24, 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

The students crouch over monitors, assemble flight hardware, run orbital simulations, wire power systems and design satellite-tracking stations.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

First, we descended from Hermes, and decelerated our orbital velocity so we could start falling properly.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir




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