Fun Fact Friday: The International Space Station is in Low Earth Orbit about 260 miles up, moving around Earth with a speed of a bit over 17,000 miles per hour. Communications satellites in a geostationary orbit a little less than 22,300 miles high poke along at a little less than 7000 miles per hour. As a general rule of orbits, the farther something is from whatever it’s orbiting, the slower it goes.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 03:52:56 +0000