orbit

Perhaps the most important changes in technology are happening in orbit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Making the vehicle fully reusable will better allow the company to improve its Starlink satellite-internet service and put data centers in orbit.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

Sculpting her natural gifts of wit and brazenness into a living artwork dazzled all who came within her orbit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

The 20 satellites, dubbed “V3” devices by the company, are designed to handle much more data than the satellites SpaceX currently lofts to orbit using its Falcon 9 fleet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

All around her, dozens of honeybees whirled like tiny moons in orbit, anchored only by her gravity.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

Following the successful gravity assist, the spacecraft is now traveling directly toward asteroid Psyche, which orbits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026

For instance, G 203-47's red dwarf rotates once every 100 or so days, but orbits its white dwarf every 14.9 days, meaning they are not tidally synced.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

The company projects Starship will begin launching to lower-Earth orbits in the second half of this year, but it isn’t clear when the company could get its rockets to the orbits required by StormWall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

For every five orbits completed by the inner planet, the outer planet finishes almost exactly three.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 27, 2026

So at first Kepler tried to explain the observations by imagining that the Earth and Mars moved in circular orbits about the Sun.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Yet it was still an undoubted factor considering the team had orbited around Isak, who scored 27 goals in the previous season.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

Back in 1968, Apollo 8 orbited the Moon 10 times without landing.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

Among the many faulty narratives that orbited out of the government, one asked us to consider the mental anguish suffered by these dispatched officers.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026

But, all these years later, I was reminded that Ozzy, despite his well-crafted Prince of Darkness persona, was the sun that brought brightness and warmth to the familial chaos that orbited around him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025

He orbited the chariot, gliding smoothly over the buffeting winds, spear raised.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Even so, it appears to be the smallest of the three known giant planets orbiting the star.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

Researchers have found the first atmosphere surrounding an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Previous population models predicted that roughly 4 to 5 closely orbiting white dwarf and red dwarf systems should exist in this region.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

This describes a phenomenon where a star wobbles back and forth, indicating a massive companion object is orbiting.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Systems are commonly double, two stars orbiting one another.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan