> To get anything into orbit, it has to meet and maintain 'escape
> velocity' after it has reached its orbital path. For LEO, this is
> approx. 7 miles per second.
Maybe after I talk the International Astrophysical Union into lowering a
geosynchronous orbit from 22,241 miles out to a more manageable (in
terms of latency) 1000 miles or so, perhaps I can get them to reduce
escape velocity to, say, 2 miles per second. :)
- Robin
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