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An object is said to be in low Earth orbit if it completes a revolution every 128 minutes or less. A 128-minute orbit, according to Kepler's third law, works out to a semi-major axis of 8,413 km ...

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Who's up for a morning rocket launch? Weather permitting, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket should be visible from the Space Coast this Tuesday.

It’s sort of Google Earth but with the details focused on low-earth orbit. You can fly around the planet and watch the satellites whiz by or even pick out the hundreds of spent upper-stage ...

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An object is said to be in low Earth orbit if it completes a revolution every 128 minutes or less. A 128-minute orbit, according to Kepler's third law, works out to a semi-major axis of 8,413 km ...