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Excuse my meta-pedantry, but an orbit is not defined only by a height, it requires also an appropriate velocity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit https://en
by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Excuse my meta-pedantry, but an orbit is not defined only by a height, it requires also an appropriate velocity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit
- walrus01 6y agoWell yes, you certainly wouldn't want to go to a circular geostationary orbit and then expend a ton of fuel to thrust retrograde, cancelling out all your velocity, which would result in falling straight into the earth. Definitely not like people would think of in common sci-fi where things can just hang motionless in space. Being in circular geostationary is defined as also having enough velocity for your orbit to remain circular.