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AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Soulg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The ISS orbits at web altitude between 360-440 km

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  • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People are complaining about pics from the ISS? I thought they must be talking about Mars or something. ISS pics are usually amazing.

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    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Even the Mars pics are great these days. There are some awesome photos over at !perseverancerover@lemmy.world.

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  • jaykay@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ooo not that far, I might take a bike trip

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Get some grippy tires.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      jump good

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• navi@lemmy.tespia.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ISS orbit is 408km.

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  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, it currently is at an altitude of 426km (was at 423km when I started writing), the orbit isn’t at a fixed altitude though, it varies, and the residual atmosphere causes drag which means every once in a while the orbit has to be adjusted.

    spotthestation.nasa.gov/tracking_map.cfm

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    • CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My favorite fact about the ISS is that it actually has an engine to do its own orbital boosts. Astronauts have taken videos where they slowly drift from one side of the cabin to the other during a burn

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      • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, but as far as I know at least in the past they usually used Soyuz or Progress spacecraft for orbit boosts. Videos of it are very cool.

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  • Soulg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is well within the range I posted, yes.

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• praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Valid, but I hate your texas analogy.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Texas is nearly 4,000 miles tall. We just hang out on the surface.

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