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Orbital space race heats up in Arctic north

BBC News 24 Feb 2026
Europe lags far behind the US and China in orbital space launches, but new facilities are opening up. .
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Astronomers discover rare super-Jupiter orbiting distant star

Phys Dot Org 23 Feb 2026
... a new exoplanet orbiting a distant star known as TIC-65910228.
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SpaceX Launches 53 Satellites Into Orbit As Part of Its Expanding Starlink Constellation

Emirates 24/7 23 Feb 2026
SpaceX has launched 53 satellites into orbit as part of its expanding Starlink constellation, executing two ...
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Supercomputer Study Finds 97,000 Stable Orbits Between Earth and Moon

NDTV 21 Feb 2026
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory simulated one million potential satellite orbits between Earth and the Moon to assess long-term stability. Fewer than 10% remained stable over six... .
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: John Glenn’s First Human Orbital Flight for NASA Celebrates 64th Anniversary

Space Coast Daily 21 Feb 2026
20, 1962 video at 9.47 am EST, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth ... 20, 1962, John Glenn launched on the Friendship 7 flight, the first human orbital flight for NASA.
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State Wrestling: Jesup's Parrow suffers orbital injury, has to withdraw

The Courier - Waterloo 20 Feb 2026
Parrow had to have surgery Thursday evening to repair the injury ... .
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Today in History: February 20, John Glenn becomes first American to orbit the Earth

The Galveston Daily News 20 Feb 2026
Today is Friday, Feb. 20, the 51st day of 2026. There are 314 days left in the year ....
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Indie Metroidvania MIO: Memories in Orbit Getting A Physical Edition Soon

Gamespot 20 Feb 2026
MIO. Memories in Orbit. $30 ... Memories in Orbit is officially gearing up for a physical release on April 10.
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Mir Space Complex: Fifteen Years as Humanity’s Only Permanent Home in Orbit

Pravda 20 Feb 2026
On February 20, 1986, the Soviet Union launched the orbital scientific station Mir, a project that succeeded the earlier Salyut stations and soon became the only permanently crewed space laboratory in the world.
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Atom-thin electronics withstand space radiation, potentially surviving for centuries in orbit

Phys Dot Org 20 Feb 2026
they launched their MoS₂-based circuit into low-Earth orbit ... from atomically thin MoS₂ could survive for some 271 years in geosynchronous orbit—far outlasting conventional silicon-based technologies.
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