in orbit

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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Despite this being Starship's greatest progress to date, the spacecraft sprang leaks, broke up in orbit and tumbled on re-entry.

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Shashank Joshi, defence editor at the Economist, told the BBC that one way the Golden Dome could work was by using thousands of satellites to spot and track missiles and then use interceptors in orbit to fire at the missiles as they take off and take them out.

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Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to crash back to Earth this week after being stuck in orbit for more than half a century.

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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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