The gunslinger's card occupied the center of the pattern; each of the following four stood at one corner, like satellites circling a star.

He would become a burnt-out body, a satellite circling forever the nearest sun . . . A powerful wrench, and air rushed into his battered lungs.

The global positioning system, consisting of 24 satellites circling the earth in fixed orbits, was created (at great taxpayer expense) for exactly this sort of military application.

The moon and its daughters, the satellites circling it like tossed coins, were high.

Iridium would allow people to make or receive calls anywhere on earth using pocket-size wireless phones that will communicate directly through 66 small satellites circling the planet.

The only thing between us and the satellites circling somewhere overhead was a bright blue sky.

That same satellite circling a small, rocky habitable planet is quite another.

The dictators had also succeeded in seizing a huge satellite closely circling the Columbian sun.

He was staring at the Space Station, the largest of all the satellites now circling Earth, as it raced along its thousand-mile-high orbit.

His was not the sole satellite still circling Earth, but it was the sole one with life aboard.