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How long would a satellite remain in orbit at the Karman Line?
Satellites in LEO spontaneously de-orbit due to atmospheric drag. For instance, the ISS will de-orbit in a few years without regular boosts.
How long would a typical satellite (say, a Starlink ...
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Did the Soviet Union put an unmanned satellite in "very low orbit"above the Kármán line which used aerodynamic attitude control?
This interesting, archived page https://www.webcitation.org/618QHms8h?url=http://www.fai.org/astronautics/100km.asp which I found in this answer, says:
Later in the same decade (or very early in ...
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