to reach Earth orbit
Reading Time: 2 minutes An orbit is the curved path that an object in space (such as a star, planet, moon, asteroid or spacecraft) takes around another object due …
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for the Earth to orbit the Sun exactly
Reading Time: < 1 minute Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of 92.96 million mi (149.60 million km),[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth’s_orbit. Earth’s orbit is an ellipse with the Earth-Sun barycenter as …
for the ISS to orbit the Earth
Reading Time: < 1 minute The International Space Station (ISS) is a modular space station in low Earth orbit. Low Earth orbit is an Earth-centred orbit with an altitude of …