On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:41:04 +0200 Robin van Steenbergen wrote: > > As far as orbital graphics, Flight Simulator X has support for graphics > up to 1,000,000 feet, which is almost geostationary orbit.
Not even close -- geostationary orbits have radii on the order of
120,000,000 feet out. Heck, the Earth itself has a mean radius of
about 21,000,000 feet; so 1,000,000 feet up is definitely low-Earth
orbit (well below low-Earth orbits used for satellites, really)
with a very short period of more like an hour.
-c
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