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Re:Background on the Falcon 9 Launch by lordnacho on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @09:35AM (#10783449)
The loss from atmospheric drag would be enormous. If you were on a planet with no atmosphere it would be no different from any other orbit though.
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Re:Background on the Falcon 9 Launch by iamjs on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @01:20PM (#10784714)
You could do this on the moon, for example
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