Orbit of a satellite Calculator
Calculates the orbital radius and period, and flight velocity from the orbital altitude. | ||
Orbit of a satellite
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- Purpose of use
- answering hypothetical 'how fast must earth spin to levitate oceans?', hence zero altitude
- Comment/Request
- ability to change units would be handy. see http://www.calctool.org/CALC/phys/astronomy/earth_orbit
However, your site is nicely instructional by including the formulas.
[1] 2019/08/20 01:31 Male / 60 years old level or over / A retired person / Useful /
- Purpose of use
- Wanted to check the orbital period of a 7000 km high satellite
[2] 2019/08/16 13:14 Male / 40 years old level / An office worker / A public employee / Very /
- Purpose of use
- rough estimate of orbit with desired period
[3] 2019/08/09 02:27 Male / 30 years old level / High-school/ University/ Grad student / A little /
- Purpose of use
- Writing a story about asteroid mining, need lots of background information. Lots of fun!
- Comment/Request
- Thanks for this helpful tool. Asteroid mining in near-earth orbit is pretty complicated.
[4] 2019/07/11 07:13 Male / 60 years old level or over / A retired person / Very /
- Comment/Request
- Orbital eccentricity missing
[5] 2019/07/05 17:31 Male / 20 years old level / An engineer / A little /
- Purpose of use
- Astronomy homework
[6] 2019/07/03 03:23 Female / 20 years old level / High-school/ University/ Grad student / Very /
- Purpose of use
- Orbital period calculation
[7] 2019/06/26 11:21 Male / 60 years old level or over / An engineer / Very /
- Purpose of use
- Trying to figure out how often a spy satellite would be able to take pictures of a particular region for a work of fiction.
[8] 2019/06/23 06:38 Male / 20 years old level / High-school/ University/ Grad student / Useful /
- Purpose of use
- Attempt at calculating the time of a Starlink pass.
[9] 2019/05/25 09:06 Male / Under 20 years old / High-school/ University/ Grad student / Very /
- Purpose of use
- Attempting to calculate when to look for Starlink satellite cluster during first few orbits, before orbital elements are posted.
[10] 2019/05/24 12:57 Male / 40 years old level / An office worker / A public employee / Very /
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