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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]

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"Our dream is to have factories in orbit and on the Moon," he told BBC News.

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Still, he is not the oldest person to fly in orbit - that record belongs to John Glenn, who aged 77 flew on a Nasa mission in 1998.

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More objects in orbit means more debris with the potential to leave come down unexpectedly.

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Though there are currently no removal efforts active in orbit, the European Space Agency has plans to launch its first clean-up mission, called ClearSpace-1, in 2028.

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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.

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