By now, this news is a few days old, but there was something I wanted to check on before noting it. Here's the story:
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If you really love rocket launches and new satellites blasting into orbit, here's some free porn. It's the Kepler launch we told you about Thursday. Burns "2,200lbs of propellant per second." Hot! [Tom's Astronomy Blog]
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I am having a hard time finding the average altitude of the ISS, using Kepler's 3rd law. I know that the orbital period of the ISS is 90 days, or .000171119329 years. I square that and then take the cube root to find the distance from earth(AU) which comes out to .0030822371(AU). This is...