interplanetary
Americanadjective
adjective
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In order to efficiently scale its satellite launches, orbital data centers and interplanetary travel ambitions, SpaceX needs to develop a fully reusable spacecraft.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026
Fast facts: The “E.T.” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” director Steven Spielberg revisits interplanetary life in this thriller starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor as two strangers drawn together by their extraterrestrial experiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
"But Nandini's sari is the first object I have collected from India for our interplanetary science collection and it's our very first sari," Shindell says.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
A spaceship’s crew returns from a dangerous interplanetary mission and encounters fresh peril on Earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Velikovsky imagined the comet, after a complicated game of interplanetary billiards, to settle down into a stable, nearly circular orbit, becoming the planet Venus—which he claimed never existed before then.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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