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AST’s finance chief said on the same call that the company was looking for ways to better secure access to orbit, including by striking partnerships or even buying rocket technology for its own use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

During the rocket’s next launch, the vehicle will attempt to deploy working Starlink satellites into orbit for the first time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

While SpaceX prepares to put its Starship rocket in orbit for the first time, foreign countries like China are looking to develop their own technology to rival Elon Musk’s company.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 20, 2026

See more: SpaceX’s Starship is finally set for orbit.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 20, 2026

I trained astronauts, talked them through their science experiments while they were in orbit, and often went to Cape Canaveral for launches of the space shuttle and other rockets.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

College-educated transplants would flood to the orbits of Austin, Houston, and Dallas.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026

Starship is set to fly at an altitude of about 275 kilometers above Earth and complete six orbits around the planet.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, orbits at about 300 miles above Earth's surface.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Mission controllers loaded a catalog containing approximately 20,000 space objects and their predicted orbits onto Starling.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

When within sight of the Earth on each of its orbits, it would stimulate outpourings of superstitious fervor among the Earthlings.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

As those components orbited the star, they could produce highly unusual, non natural variations in brightness that would stand out from the behavior of ordinary stars.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

Other astronauts have orbited the Moon - most recently the crew of Nasa's Artemis II mission, which splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean earlier this month.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 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

Lying on my stomach across the bed, I watched how they orbited the space in the jar, around and around like they’d missed the exit.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

By combining the observations and tracking how the object moved over time, the team determined that it behaved much more like a planet orbiting the star than an imaging artifact or a distant background star.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Now Meink was saying we have systems that can do this “on orbit”—that is, while orbiting in outer space.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

She used GPS stations that received signals from more than 30 satellites orbiting Earth from roughly 25,000 kilometers away.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

About 30 minutes after launch, Roman separated from its SpaceX rocket and is now heading towards its orbiting point around a million miles away.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Somewhere out there the sluggers were orbiting Earth in their spaceship.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson