Eli5: How do satellites stay in orbit, and don’t gravity pull them to the surface?
In: Earth Science
Imagine you build a paper plane and you give a throw. It travels quite the distance before gravity pulls it to the ground.
If you were to build the perfect paper plane and were able to throw it hard enough and from a higher orbit, it still would be pulled towards the ground, but it’d keep ‘missing’ the ground as it travels over the horizon.
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