satellite
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The positions, motions, and properties of small satellite galaxies can reveal how larger galaxies assembled over billions of years, including how they accumulated matter and interacted with smaller systems.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
Modantus is his name, his head a skull, with brassy adornments ascending like a satellite dish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Delhi and its satellite cities record some of the world's highest pollution levels through the year.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Developing targets currently relies less on AI than intelligence reports, satellite imagery and other human-led investigatory work, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
At the time appointed I sent the wake signal to the relay satellite, which was in stationary orbit about 300 miles over South Karhide.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Finding additional satellites could do much more than expand the known population of galaxies surrounding the Milky Way.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
It accounts for the vast majority of satellites and other craft put into orbit largely by its Falcon 9 rocket, which is launched from Florida and Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
“Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now,” Musk wrote in a post on X, referring to his plan to eventually operate orbital satellites that can function as data centers.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
SaxaVord in Unst is the UK's first fully-licensed spaceport with several companies interested in using the site to launch small satellites into orbit.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
On the other hand, it has been very useful, not only in putting satellites into orbit, but also in bringing them back to earth for repair or replacement.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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