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in orbit
Idioms and Phrases
Thrilled, delighted, as in Dean's in orbit over his son's success . This expression alludes to the successful launching into orbit of a satellite or other spacecraft. [ Slang ; late 1900s]Example Sentences
Putting data centres in space – either in orbit around Earth, or on the Moon - the theory goes, means they can't do quite so much harm.
Based on technologies that already exist or are under development, the satellites would be assembled in orbit.
Its next target is to put a small data centre in orbit around the moon in 2027.
And now, as the new space race heats up, spawning tens of thousands of satellites in orbit around the Earth, it only stands to make the visible night sky less so.
Starting in the 1950s and up to 2019, there was a sum total of roughly 2,000 operating satellites in orbit.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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