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One of the most common places we send satellites is the low Earth orbit, possibly to image the surface of Earth at up to about 2,000 kilometers altitude.
Another common place we send satellites is the geostationary orbit at about 35,000 kilometers altitude.
And then there's the orbit coined "the graveyard," the ominous junk or disposal orbits, where some satellites are intentionally placed at the end of their life so that they're out of the way of common operational orbits.
There's also mandates for those dead geostationary spacecraft to be moved into a graveyard orbit.
Or maybe satellite manufacturers need to be charged a deposit to even launch a satellite into orbit, and that deposit would only be returned if the satellite was disposed of properly or if they cleaned up some quota of debris.
Earth orbit is breathtakingly beautiful and our gateway to exploration.
To immediately orbit the planet, land, take a quick look around for any big, obvious signs of life, and report back to home base.
More than six thousand light years from the surface of the earth, a rapidly spinning neutron star called the Black Widow pulsar blasts its companion brown dwarf star with radiation as the two orbit each other every 9 hours.
These stars seem to orbit an invisible object.
All you can see is the deflection of the light around them, and occasionally, when a star or a cloud of gas comes into their orbit, it is ripped apart by tidal forces, forming what we call an accretion disk.
CA: And so even with a machine designed to escape Earth's gravity, I think you told me last time this thing could actually take a fully loaded 747, people, cargo, everything, into orbit.
The Space Shuttle could only take people to low Earth orbit.
Then the Space Shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.
Launched from Cape Canaveral three days before, this is the first time that humans have ever traveled beyond low Earth orbit.
They operate a constellation of five satellites, each roughly the size of an ambulance, that is constantly taking pictures of the Earth as they orbit at 28,000 kilometers per hour.
Go out a bit further, you'll find that beyond the orbit of Neptune, way out, far from the Sun, that's where the real estate really begins.
The design called for geosynchronous orbit 25,000 miles up, 100-meter diameter lens.
The difficulty is getting there, and clearly, the cost to orbit is key.
How much will it cost you and your spacesuit to go to orbit? 100 bucks.
Or like the computer programmers at the aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, who have now written a program that uses 420,000 lines of near-flawless code to control every aspect of igniting four million pounds of rocket fuel and putting a 120-ton spaceship into orbit.
It is also, by virtue of its geography, a place where you can control every single polar orbiting satellite on every orbit.
The Moon is revealed by the synestia cooling and shrinking inside of its orbit.
By the time it completes its orbit and returns, the blob will have consumed the entire world, if even a single portion that will wake up remains.
The best we could do were simulations like this in supercomputers, but even here you see this ring of light, which is the orbit of photons.
So what you're seeing is that last orbit of photons.
The puncture in space-time is so deep that light moves around in orbit, so that light behind the black hole, as I think we'll see soon, moves around and comes to us on these parallel lines at exactly that orbit.
It turns out, that orbit is the square root of 27 times just a handful of fundamental constants.
SD: You'll see here that some light from behind it gets lensed, and some light does a loop-the-loop around the entire orbit of the black hole.
So, that was taken from orbit; we had the camera zoom on the surface, and we actually saw the Rover on the surface.
This is actually taken from the satellite that we have in orbit around Saturn, the Cassini.
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