What is the station's orbital speed? The radius of Earth is 6.37×106m, its mass is 5.98×10^24kg.
+33653 Orbit altitude, yes; station mass, no.
mv2/r = GMm/r2
m = station mass, cancels out. M = mass of Earth. r = centre of earth to station. G = gravitational constant.
Or, if you assume the station height is negligible compared with the radius of the Earth, then you could use:
v2/r = g (where g = 9.81 m/s2 and r is now just the radius of the Earth).
+37095 I think we will need the mass of 'the station' and orbit altitude to answer this question....
+33653 Orbit altitude, yes; station mass, no.
mv2/r = GMm/r2
m = station mass, cancels out. M = mass of Earth. r = centre of earth to station. G = gravitational constant.
Or, if you assume the station height is negligible compared with the radius of the Earth, then you could use:
v2/r = g (where g = 9.81 m/s2 and r is now just the radius of the Earth).
+37095 Which makes sense ...explains how multiple sattellites of different masses can all be placed in 'stationary' orbits above the eqauator and do not crash into each other....
