Orbit

In celestial mechanics, an orbit is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a planet, moon, asteroid, or Lagrange point.

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Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 set to crash down after 53 years in orbit

Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown

Project Kuiper: Amazon Deploys First Production Satellites into Orbit

Vega-C rocket launches European forest-monitoring 'Biomass' satellite to orbit (video)

Inferno From Orbit: NASA Tracks 15,000-Acre Wildfire in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens

Fully automated laboratory heads into orbit to test food production in space

One Orbit, One Everest Lost: A Planet Evaporates Into a 9-Million-Kilometer Tail

Dazzling Pictures Celebrate Hubble Space Telescope's 35 Years in Orbit

South Korea sends 4th spy satellite to orbit on SpaceX rideshare launch

Eye on Infinity: NASA Celebrates Hubble’s 35th Year in Orbit

ELVIS in orbit: New 3D microscope arrives at the ISS to study microbes in space

Astronomers discover doomed planet shedding a Mount Everest's worth of material every orbit, leaving behind a comet-like tail

SpaceX Just Launched Robots, Atomic Clocks, and Mars Tech Into Orbit

ELVIS Leaves Earth: 3D Holograms in Orbit Could Reveal Life on Icy Moons

The world’s biggest space-based radar will measure Earth’s forests from orbit

ELVIS to enter orbit: Pioneering imaging system to enhance space biology and life detection beyond Earth

Over 6,600 tons of space junk are floating around in Earth's orbit

BBC - The plans to put data centres in orbit and on the moon

Russian Satellite Trio Just Dropped Something Weird in Orbit

China’s megaconstellation launches could litter orbit for more than a century, analysts warn