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BeiDou, with 56 satellites deployed across three types of orbit, offers more resiliency than GPS, which relies on 31 satellites in medium Earth orbit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Raising Swift into a higher orbit could keep it operating for even longer.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 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 Vostok 5, Bykovsky's spacecraft, was in a lower orbit than planned.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

The planet lies about 124 light years away in the constellation Leo and orbits within the habitable zone of a red dwarf star.

From Science Daily ● 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

First discovered in 2013, the Pink Planet, formally known as GJ 504 b, orbits a Sun-like star about 57 light-years from Earth.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

This tilt causes the amount of sunlight that reaches different regions of Earth to change throughout the year as it orbits the Sun.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

Those with elliptical crossing orbits tended to collide and destroy themselves.

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

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

The Sentinel-1 satellites that Peter uses orbited over Halley Bay, taking pictures of the ice sheet.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024

The jurors had noted how his left eye floated and how the light winked against its dull, glassy surface as it orbited eccentrically in its socket.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Its speed, location, and alignment with the debris disk all matched what scientists would expect from a planet orbiting Beta Pictoris.

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

There were no castles, dungeons, or orbiting space fortresses for my avatar to raid.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline