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How is this a spacecraft? It can't ever leave orbit of a planet with an atmosphere.
by Sevii 11mo ago
How is this a spacecraft? It can't ever leave orbit of a planet with an atmosphere.
- Dylan16807 11mo agoNeither could the space shuttle but surely that's a spacecraft. Why would it have to leave a planet to count?
- jojobas 11mo agoMost spacecraft we know of never left the Earth orbit anyway.
- dvrj101 11mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft#Crewed_and_uncrewed_spacecraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft#Crewed_and_uncrewed...
- phire 11mo agoIt spends it's entire mission above the Kármán line (100km), so it is legitimately in space, and is therefore a spacecraft, like all other satellites.