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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 30 January 2016 09:45:45PM *  0 points [-]

By "in orbit" I mean "funded by grants rather than charity." If a group has a steady grant research stream, that means they are doing good enough work that funding agencies continue to give them money. This is the standard way to be self-sustaining for a research group.