Synonyms of orbiting

orbiting

verb

present participle of orbit

as in circling

to travel completely around

the moon orbits the Earth

Synonyms & Similar Words

• circling
• traversing
• encircling
• crossing
• ringing
• circuiting
• circumventing
• rounding
• circumnavigating
• girdling
• compassing
• circumambulating
• perambulating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of orbiting

Musk has said SpaceX’s future success hinges on its Starship rocket, slated to carry astronauts to the moon and launch hundreds of thousands of communications satellites and orbiting data centers to power its AI ambitions. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

Humankind's utilization of space is at an inflection point, as companies such as SpaceX, Blue Origin and Amazon plan to launch constellations of hundreds of thousands of telecommunication satellites and orbiting data centers in the coming years. — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2026

The acts of sabotage risk disrupting access to Starlink, which relies on the gateway ground stations to beam broadband data to orbiting satellites that then relay the internet to users on the ground. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 19 Oct. 2026

Currently, about 16,000 satellites are orbiting Earth, providing everything from GPS service and weather reports to phone service in remote locations to people across the globe. — Margaret Landis, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026

These can profoundly affect our orbiting satellites and power grid, so understanding the sun’s magnetic activity actually very much impacts us here on Earth. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026

The planetary system is among the most studied in our galaxy, and its star is known to host 30 orbiting comets and a giant disk of dust and debris, which NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed in detail in 2015. — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

An orbiting satellite could afterward use its signal to locate the site and establish a precise lock before transmitting energy. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026