orbited

Orbited is the past tense of orbit, meaning to move around another body in space on a curved path that is typically governed by gravity. In astronomy and spaceflight, an object that completes one revolution around a planet, star, or other mass is said to have orbited that body. Orbital motion is described using elements such as semi-major axis, eccentricity, inclination, and the other angles that fix the shape and orientation of the orbit. The orbital period depends on the distance to the primary and the masses involved. For example, the Moon orbited Earth, and many satellites orbited planets.

In computing, Orbited refers to an early open-source project and its associated server software intended to enable real-time web communications through Comet-style long-polling connections. The Orbited server operated with a client library to allow servers to push data to connected clients as updates became available, long before WebSocket technology matured. The project is now inactive, but it is remembered as part of the history of push technologies on the web and for contributing ideas that influenced later real-time web communication frameworks and protocols.