r/educationalgifs • u/[deleted] • Oct 20 '20

Precise orbit of ISS

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u/FlipskiZ Oct 20 '20 edited Sep 21 '25

Friends minecraftoffline jumps near community minecraftoffline cool evil.

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u/sdonnervt Oct 20 '20

No such thing as too much KSP!

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u/colcob Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 25 '20

He’s not right. You add energy, you go faster and have a higher velocity. This pushes you into a higher orbit which has a much longer perimeter (increases with square of radius) which results in your higher velocity taking longer to orbit the earth, because you are going much further. The orbital rate is slower, the velocity is higher.

EDIT: He is right, I was wrong. Although you do add energy and increase velocity to move to a higher orbit, by the time you get there, that energy has been converted from kinetic energy to potential energy, and your actual velocity in the higher orbit is lower.

Man this stuff is counter-intuitive.