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27 cze 2024 · If you would like to know where the space station is right now, ESA's live map has got you covered. The informative map shows where the ISS is as well as its speed and altitude.
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12 cze 2024 · Low Earth orbit (LEO), region of space where satellites orbit closest to Earth’s surface. There is no official definition of this region, but it is usually considered to be between 160 and 1,600 km (about 100 and 1,000 miles) above Earth.
13 cze 2024 · The Moon is an average of 238,855 miles away from Earth, which is about 30 Earths away. You might be surprised. Often when we see drawings of the Earth and the Moon, they look really close together.
5 dni temu · Starlink satellites orbit approximately 342 miles (550 kilometers) above Earth and put on a spectacular show for observers as they move across the sky.
1 dzień temu · At aphelion, Earth’s distance from the sun is about 94.5 million miles. Six months later, at the start of January in the winter, Earth is at its closest point to the sun at 91.5 million miles ...
13 cze 2024 · The National Imagery and Mapping Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, along with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, are making the most detailed and accurate topographic map ever of almost the whole world. And they have gathered all the information for it in only 10 days!
1 dzień temu · The Kármán line, at 100 km (62 mi) or 1.57% of Earth's radius, is often used as the border between the atmosphere and outer space. Atmospheric effects become noticeable during atmospheric reentry of spacecraft at an altitude of around 120 km (75 mi).
