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Recent Examples of satellite
Greenhouse gases reduce the satellite carrying capacity of low Earth orbit
Scientific Reports.
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
The Starlink mission sent up 21 of the internet satellites for SpaceX from Space Launch Complex 40 at 10:35 p.m.
The first-stage booster flew for the 22nd time making a recovery landing downrange on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2025
To do this, the satellites will make 3D observations of both the inner solar system and the corona to learn how its mass and energy become solar wind blowing outward in all directions.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
Ship was supposed to deploy a set of dummy Starlink satellites on Flight 7.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 4 Mar. 2025
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
The Starlink mission sent up 21 of the internet satellites for SpaceX from Space Launch Complex 40 at 10:35 p.m.
The first-stage booster flew for the 22nd time making a recovery landing downrange on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2025
To do this, the satellites will make 3D observations of both the inner solar system and the corona to learn how its mass and energy become solar wind blowing outward in all directions.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
Ship was supposed to deploy a set of dummy Starlink satellites on Flight 7.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satellite
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Suspicion quickly flared into insurgency, and when the British pulled out of Kabul in 1842 with a convoy of 16,000 troops and camp followers, only a single survivor (the assistant surgeon William Brydon) reached the border town of Jalalabad alive.—
Jonah Blank,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2011
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The women in the sketch were part of a controversial group known as camp followers: wives, widows, runaways and others who marched with the Continental Army.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 Mar. 2024
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Facilitating mankind’s victory has been an invention that allows flesh-and-blood soldiers to control mechanized drone bodies with half their minds while the other halves enjoy, say, margaritas on a digital beach.—
Graham Hillard,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Mar. 2025
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William, 42, sported the camouflage fatigues reflective of his role as Colonel-in-Chief of the Merican Regiment, an Army unit involved there, to hear about how the soldiers are securing NATO's eastern flank as part of Operation Cabrit.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Tatlin scholarship is whispery on his time in Kyiv, for the excellent reason that Stalin’s minions torched most evidence of it.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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But the largest driving force behind the return-to-work mandates, suggest the early scholarship, is CEOs feeling lonely without minions.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
12 Feb. 2025
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The Liberals have been able to stop their opponent Pierre Poilievre’s momentum by painting him as a MAGA lackey.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2025
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One of Knuckles’ many lackeys ultimately finds Rose by … going to her apartment building, where her name is prominently displayed on her mailbox?—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
6 Feb. 2025
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His maternal grandparents were medical missionaries in Liberia, helping to ignite Fuller’s interest in medicine, Branson said.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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The wife of a Minnesota missionary killed in the African country of Angola last year has been charged with his murder, the lead pastor of the Lakes Area Vineyard Church in Detroit Lakes confirmed in a letter to his congregation.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2025
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Back in Montana, every trip Jacob and company take to Bozeman and back is inevitably fraught with peril — if not instigated by dastardly rich guy Donald Whitfield (Timothy Dalton) and/or his henchman Banner Creighton (Jerome Flynn), then by the pitiless nature of extreme weather.—
Matt Brennan,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Mar. 2025
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In Lynch’s festering neo-noir mystery from 1987, Hopper plays a chronic villain perpetually sipping from a tank of amyl nitrate and handing out hits as a way to manipulate his henchmen.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 2025
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What may be worse is that a gaggle of sycophants and groupthink team members underneath the Dark Empath—the direct reports—create a ruthless echo chamber for the king or queen at the top of Mt. Stupid.—
Dan Pontefract,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Of course, Veep’s sycophants, buffoons, and backstabbers bear little resemblance to the vanguard of our latest regime.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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The other nephew is still an ardent adherent to the cult and has gifted much of his substantial wealth to it.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Mar. 2025
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Nostalgia for the pre-Brown era would not exercise nearly so powerful a grip on Black America today if its adherents focused on its detailed, pervasive inhumanities rather than relying on gauzy glimpses.—
Justin Driver,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2025
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“Satellite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satellite. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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