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To: Yardstick; beebuster2000

It would descend due to drag. There’s still a thin atmosphere at that altitude. It would need propellant to maintain speed and orbit.


10 posted on 08/18/2013 7:40:16 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62

That makes sense. I wish they had given it a nudge to keep it up there.


12 posted on 08/18/2013 7:47:56 AM PDT by Yardstick
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