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Low Earth Orbit

#1 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Apr 21, 2021 6:11 am

There is so much stuff happening in and around our oblate spheroid that is not just SpaceX or NASA orientated, that I thought it worth posting this LEO category.

Amazon (Bizos) is well into the satellite mania too!
Amazon has selected United Launch Alliance (ULA) to start launching its megaconstellation of internet satellites to space.

ULA will participate in nine launches of Project Kuiper, which Amazon hopes will eventually send 3,236 advanced satellites to low Earth orbit. The number of satellites ULA will send aloft was not disclosed in a press release from the two organizations, nor was the value of the launch contract.

The missions will proceed on ULA's Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at some date, also yet to be announced. Atlas V is a veteran of numerous Earth and Mars missions to low Earth orbit and beyond, including Global Positioning System satellites, the New Horizons mission to Pluto, the recently landed Mars Perseverance rover, as well as the Curiosity rover and Insight missions that landed on Mars in 2012 and 2018.
https://www.space.com/amazon-kuiper-meg ... tification
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Re: Low Earth Orbit

#2 Post by Boac » Wed Apr 21, 2021 6:57 am

It won't be long before you cannae get away from the earth at all :-?

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Re: Low Earth Orbit

#3 Post by llondel » Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:08 am

Before long there will be so much junk in low orbit that it won't be safe to launch anything because of the probability of hitting some of it. The film Gravity showcased this pretty well back in 2013.

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