A New Satellite Is Going to Try to Maintain Low Earth Orbit Without Any Propellant
- Mon 18 Jan 2021 04:24:AM
Staying afloat in space can be deceptively hard. Just ask the characters from Gravity, or any number of the hundreds of small satellites that fall into the atmosphere in a given year. Any object placed in low Earth orbit (LEO) must constantly fight against the drag caused by the small number of air molecules that …
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