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WCDT: 2161-2165 (9-13 April 2012) QC: Back To Earth
no one special:
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--- Quote from: DSL on 10 Apr 2012, 12:30 ---Waitaminnit, WAITAMINNIT.
How /why does Hanners spend all night watching something that rotates out of view every 90 minutes or so? Take naps, young lady.
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Well spotted! Also, after that 90 minutes or so when Earth will be in the middle of the window again, they won't be seeing the same part of the Earth as they did during the previous lap.
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Ah, but you're assuming that Station is not in a geostationary orbit!
snubnose:
Its very, very, very unlikely that station is in geosync.
Geosync orbit, about 30,000 km above ground, is much more expensive to reach than the low orbits of about 400 km above ground usually used for all reallife space stations (such as the ISS).
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: no one special on 11 Apr 2012, 00:10 ---
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 10 Apr 2012, 13:36 ---
--- Quote from: DSL on 10 Apr 2012, 12:30 ---Waitaminnit, WAITAMINNIT.
How /why does Hanners spend all night watching something that rotates out of view every 90 minutes or so? Take naps, young lady.
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Well spotted! Also, after that 90 minutes or so when Earth will be in the middle of the window again, they won't be seeing the same part of the Earth as they did during the previous lap.
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Ah, but you're assuming that Station is not in a geostationary orbit!
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Sigh.
Others have already commented on how much energy they would waste to reach a geosynchronous orbit.
Of course, they might have built the station up there, but all the evidence suggests that they are at a lower orbit:
* If they were up in geosynchronous orbit, the image of Earth in the window would be much smaller.
* If they were up in geosynchronous orbit, that window would point towards the Earth once every 24 hours instead of once every 90 minutes (meaning that contrary to what you implied Hanners would not have seen the Southern Pacific ever again during the night).
* Hanners told a long time ago that at the station they see a sunrise every 2 hours (or was it 90 minutes). Together with music from 2001 (Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss).
cesariojpn:
Hanners and Marten have those Dora puppy eyes.
akronnick:
eeeeEEEEE
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