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RE: [FT] Orbit and FT

From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@h...>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:03:03 -0800
Subject: RE: [FT] Orbit and FT

>From: "B Lin" <lin@rxkinetix.com>

>It's only a problem at low orbits, where you still have wisps of 
>atmosphere.  Sky Lab came down because it was low enough to have a
slight 
>drag and it ran out of fuel for the thrusters.  It was thought
uneconomical 
>to try to push that much mass into a higher orbit.  When you get a few 
>thousand miles out, there isn't much atmosphere to deal with so it
would be 
>negligible.

So maybe the lowest orbital band in the game would have this facotered
in, 
but no others.

2B^2

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