Orbital spaceflight
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orbital-spaceflight-211-471105
title:
Orbital spaceflight
text:
An orbital spaceflight is a spaceflight in which a spacecraft is placed on a trajectory where it could remain in space for at least one orbit. To do this around the Earth, it must be on a free trajectory which has an altitude at perigee around 80 kilometers (50 mi); this is the boundary of space as defined by NASA, the US Air Force and the FAA. To remain in orbit at this altitude requires an orbital speed of ~7.8 km/s. Orbital speed is slower for higher orbits, but attaining them requires greate
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encyclopedia
description:
Spaceflight where spacecraft orbits an astronomical body
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_spaceflight
date created:
2004-06-20T13:42:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T01:07:11Z
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