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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