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There are multiple types of Dyson sphere. Dyson's original vision, a swarm of satellites, would be in orbit, but the popular version more commonly seen in fiction - a solid shell - would not, any more than the Earth orbits its own core (although any one point on the shell could plausibly be said to orbit the centre, provided the sphere is spinning).