orbit

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Touted for years by Musk as the key to taking humans to Mars, SpaceX is now looking to show that Starship can work, including by lofting the company’s own satellites into orbit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

As tens of thousands of satellites are launched into orbit over the next several years, operators will need to buy a lot of semiconductors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Voyager 2 needed more than nine and a half years just to fly past the planet, without attempting to enter orbit.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Musk plans to put AI data centers in orbit, believing they will be cheaper than terrestrial data centers in a few years.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Although it misses its target of the moon, it is the first artificial object to leave Earth’s orbit.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson