Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission [video]

Re:Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission [video] by peeters on Monday November 25, 2013 @06:02PM (#6797726)

We put lots of them up there! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit

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Re:Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission [video] by kindredlight on Monday November 25, 2013 @06:05PM (#6797742)

Geosynchronous is nowhere near 1/4 distance to the moon. This sat is temporarily going to a highly eccentric transfer orbit on its way to GEO.

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Re:Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission [video] by deletes on Monday November 25, 2013 @06:18PM (#6797796)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/404067161175379968

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Re:Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission [video] by peeters on Monday November 25, 2013 @06:16PM (#6797786)

You're right of course, although I would argue that the difference between 1/11 the distance to the moon (geostationary orbit) and 1/4 the distance to the moon are not off by an order of magnitude, compared to LEO or other lower orbits.

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Re:Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission [video] by ssewell on Monday November 25, 2013 @06:13PM (#6797772)

Yep. Keyword is "transfer" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_transfer_orbit

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Re:Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission [video] by mnw21cam on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @05:51AM (#6800378)

Looks like a bi-elliptic transfer to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-elliptic_transfer

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