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16 questions linked to/from How hard does atmospheric drag push on the ISS? Is it more than one pound?
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Which LEO satellite lost over 30 km of altitude in the geomagnetic storm of 13-14 March 1989?
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During the great geomagnetic storm of 13-14 March 1989, tracking of thousands of space objects was lost and it took North American Defense Command (...
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How often does ISS require re-boosting to higher orbit?
I know that ISS, being in low Earth orbit, requires regular boosts. But I can't seem to find information on how often does this happen. Is it done during each resupply mission, only during some of ...
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What is the density of the earth's atmosphere at an altitude of four hundred kilometers?
What is the density of the earth's atmosphere at an altitude of four hundred kilometers? I want to use it to calculate the drag on something in orbit near the ISS.
The Jacchia Reference Atmosphere is ...
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What is the ISS drag?
ISS constantly loses altitude to air drag and other forces (tidal, electromagnetic). While finding that rate in the sources isn't that hard, with orbital mechanics of altitude loss actually increasing ...
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How do orbital boosts affect the structural integrity of the ISS?
I've become curious of this question since my time on KSP, and searches have not rendered much.
In the simulator, building large stations even without the micro atmosphere being simulated, can cause ...
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This ISS trash deployment looks more like 2 feet than 2 inches per second, was it too fast or are these articles incorrect?
Digital Trends' Watch a NASA astronaut jettison part of the ISS into space which was linked in says:
Writing in Air & Space last year about the process of jettisoning objects, veteran NASA ...
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How steady is the atmospheric drag force experienced by the ISS?
Suppose one wanted to modulate the power of a hypothetical, powerful ion thruster on the ISS to continuously compensate the atmospheric drag force in order to achieve near-perfect free-fall conditions ...
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How precisely do we know mass of the ISS?
Everyone knows that in space, every gram counts. Knowing how much mass an orbital object has is necessary for precise motion calculations.
So how precisely do we know the mass of ISS? I'm sure we can ...
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Does any site track the mass of the ISS?
Watching the daily ISS live broadcast from NASA the PRO mentioned the specific mass of the ISS complex (today) and what it would be when the Soyuz leaves shortly.
One can find out the mass of each ...
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What is the orbital boost acceleration of the ISS?
How much acceleration does the International Space Station experience during its orbital adjustment boosts? How much thrust and for how long? Bonus question: what is the highest acceleration that the ...
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Garbage powered reboosting module for low Earth orbiting space stations
Instead of dumping massive garbage packs once in a while, using a robotic arm, could some sort of garbage canon eject the same mass in small pieces, at higher velocity, so that it contributes to ...
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How are the orientations of the ISS' eight independent solar arrays optimized?
I've noticed that in various photos and videos the orientation of the ISS' eight independent solar arrays are often moving, and usually some are different than others.
0th-order naive thinking would ...
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How much of a drag is it, orbiting the Earth in a space suit?
An astronaut in a spacesuit travels around the Earth at the same altitude as the ISS. Let's say the astronaut leads the ISS by 1000 meters along the same orbit.
After one orbit, how much velocity has ...
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What are the limitations to using this "trick" to quantitatively relate altitude changes (via their speed) with applied forces that cause them?
In this comment I used a "trick" to double check a calculation in the post above it.
Using the vis-viva equation I first determined that if the ISS lost 10 meters of altitude in 86400 ...
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Which LEO satellites have publicly available accurate position information? [duplicate]
I am working on a orbit propagation project and need accurate position information of LEO satellites. I have until now used Sentinel 3A/3B (~800 km altitude), whose ECEF coordinates I can get with a 1 ...
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