Umm, when you are traveling as fast as you are in orbit you are literally ‘falling’ - it’s not that there is no gravity. If you went to zero miles an hour (orbiters are traveling something like 12,000 mph - it’s centripetal force making it feel like there’s no gravity. The atmosphere is thin up 50 miles so you aren’t going to burn up.
Right, I like to think of it as throwing a baseball. the faster you throw the ball the larger the curvature of the ball and the farther it goes. If you can throw the ball fast enough, the curvature of that throw will match the curvature of the earth and now you have a satellite.
Umm, when you are traveling as fast as you are in orbit you are literally ‘falling’ - it’s not that there is no gravity. If you went to zero miles an hour (orbiters are traveling something like 12,000 mph - it’s centripetal force making it feel like there’s no gravity. The atmosphere is thin up 50 miles so you aren’t going to burn up.
Right, I like to think of it as throwing a baseball. the faster you throw the ball the larger the curvature of the ball and the farther it goes. If you can throw the ball fast enough, the curvature of that throw will match the curvature of the earth and now you have a satellite.