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Then how does it slow Enterprise's crew from orbital velocity when beaming them down to a planet?
by jhgb 5y ago
Then how does it slow Enterprise's crew from orbital velocity when beaming them down to a planet?
- stavros 5y agoThe ship is on a geostationary orbit, obviously.
- jhgb 5y agoThere's around 4 km/s difference between geostationary orbital speed and the surface of the Earth. For a zero inclination circular orbit, you'd need to be at an altitude of ~1855000 km to have linear velocity equal to the nadir on Earth's surface.