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#1 ISS orbit picture
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:51 pm
by The Minx
I didn't want to spam the new year's thread with more rants about the ISS, but anyway, to illustrate what I was saying there, here's the picture I was talking about:
Doesn't look all that impressive, does it? Especially since the distance to the moon would be over 11000 pixels on this scale.
#2
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 7:14 pm
by Batman
Not that the damned thing would be any more useful if it were in geostationary orbit. USED to be people took us having a permanent moon base by now a given and a Mars colony was considered highly likely. Instead, we got... the International Barely Transatmospheric Station.
#3
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 5:24 pm
by The Minx
Batman wrote:Not that the damned thing would be any more useful if it were in geostationary orbit. USED to be people took us having a permanent moon base by now a given and a Mars colony was considered highly likely. Instead, we got... the International Barely Transatmospheric Station.
Actually it's not even transatmospheric, since it is well within the thermosphere. It's only beyond the l
ower atmosphere. To be fair, many satelites are there too. I guess I wouldn't quibble about it if at least it were in the exosphere. Or maybe I'm just venting my disappointment about space flight in general. Yea, that sounds about right.
PS: NASA defines "in space" as being beyond 100 km or so, where the lower atmosphere ends.