orbit
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SpaceX, which competes with OpenAI and Anthropic following its xAI merger, plans to deploy data centers in orbit.
From Barron's • May 30, 2026
The company attempted to place a satellite from AST SpaceMobile using its New Glenn rocket but was unable to get it as far into orbit as intended.
From BBC • May 29, 2026
Starlink has about 9,600 satellites in orbit now, which is about 15 times as many as the orbital fleet of the next largest satellite service provider, according to estimates from New Street Research.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
These kinds of abrupt changes, called millennial-scale climate events, reveal that Earth's climate system can reorganize much faster than would be expected from slow changes in Earth's orbit alone.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
The result leaves my brain somewhere in orbit beyond Saturn, where it can’t bother anyone, especially me.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing orbit
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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The Launch of Sputnik 1
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