• itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    That’s highly pedantic, you need to draw the line somewhere. At 120 km you get long-ish sustainable orbits, at 80 km objects decay within a single orbit. The ISS sits at around 420 km, well above that

    Btw, the airplane limit calculated by von Kármán was closer to 80 km, the 100 km limit is not based on his calculations.