While falling over themselves to support Ukraine, a space industry conference has removed the name of celebrated Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from its agenda.
agree, 100km is too low to even orbit since its still got considerable atmospheric drag, the lowest satellite orbit is about 167km by a japanese satellite and even they had quite a bit of drag
strikes me as a little too convenient that a term defined by an American "space lawyer" takes the achievement away
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Of course America uses an arbitrarily different measurement than the entire rest of the world. This fucking country.
agree, 100km is too low to even orbit since its still got considerable atmospheric drag, the lowest satellite orbit is about 167km by a japanese satellite and even they had quite a bit of drag