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To: 1Old Pro

“ Hope it didn’t contain a hammer, travelling 15,000 miles per hour it could do some serious damage to their station on orbit.”
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It would be going the same general speed as the space station and be in the same general orbit. In other words it would be “floating” around in the station’s vicinity as they both orbit the Earth.


46 posted on 11/02/2023 11:29:13 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MA)
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To: House Atreides
In other words it would be “floating” around in the station’s vicinity as they both orbit the Earth.

OK, hopefully it doesn't float into something else in orbit not at the same speed.

47 posted on 11/02/2023 11:31:53 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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