in orbit

1. 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

It's the first time the observatory – which was placed in orbit last year - will be able to watch the Sun when it reaches its maximum activity cycle.

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China is the third nation to put humans in orbit after the United States and the former Soviet Union.

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The paper boasts that the company’s data center fleet “will be significantly larger … than any previous or current satellite constellations” in orbit.

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It’s part of the reason SpaceX has almost 9,000 Starlink satellites in orbit, according to data collected by astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell.

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It plans to launch two prototype satellites by early 2027 to test its hardware in orbit.

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