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Re:Starship's Third Flight Test by dotnet00 on Thursday March 14, 2024 @11:06AM (#39704968)
The number going around from people who typically do this kind of thing is a ~55x235km orbit: https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1768270310199935299

I'm not really in a place to judge your math right now to really add anything on that.

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Re:Starship's Third Flight Test by perihelions on Thursday March 14, 2024 @11:21AM (#39705163)
Yeah, that guy's absolutely a domain expert! But note that he writes -55 km, not +55 km—that is a suborbital trajectory. Its perigee is below the earth's surface; -55 km is a negative altitude.

(He's also clearly using a different set of data than I have access to. I can't read the context of the Twitter thread so I don't know what numbers he's looking at).

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Re:Starship's Third Flight Test by dotnet00 on Thursday March 14, 2024 @11:28AM (#39705262)
Ooh that's a good catch, I subconsciously substituted the -55 for ~55!
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