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Re:What's So Special About Low-Earth Orbit? by tsotha on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @06:09PM (#10223474)
From an energy perspective, as Heinlein pointed out "Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system."
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Re:What's So Special About Low-Earth Orbit? by phreeza on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @06:29PM (#10223558)
Except if you want to go somewhere - and then stay there.
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Re:What's So Special About Low-Earth Orbit? by a3n on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @07:27PM (#10223757)
Once you go somewhere, you're halfway to staying there.
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Re:What's So Special About Low-Earth Orbit? by Dylan16807 on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @09:16PM (#10224139)
Capture doesn't need all that much energy unless you're taking a really impatient path to a distant location.
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