how do satellites stay at the same elevations and speed in orbit?
In: Engineering
Here’s the funny thing, the speed that it’s traveling is what keeps it at that altitude. If it were traveling faster it would get further from Earth, slower it would get closer, slow enough and it would burn up in a fire ball for us all to enjoy.
They keep going because there’s very little to slow them down. That’s kind of why that movie with Sandra Bullock, which I enjoyed, was really kind of BULL, because if things were suddenly accelerated they would not stay in the same orbit they would move away from earth.
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