Orbital flight | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-04

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_spaceflight


00:01:06 1 Orbital launch
00:03:44 2 Stability
00:04:45 3 Orbits
00:05:42 4 Orbital maneuver
00:06:09 5 Deorbit and re-entry
00:08:05 6 History
00:08:50 7 See also



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SUMMARY
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An orbital spaceflight (or orbital flight) is a spaceflight in which a spacecraft is placed on a trajectory where it could remain in space for at least one orbit. To do this around the Earth, it must be on a free trajectory which has an altitude at perigee (altitude at closest approach) above 100 kilometers (62 mi); this is, by at least one convention, the boundary of space. To remain in orbit at this altitude requires an orbital speed of ~7.8 km/s. Orbital speed is slower for higher orbits, but attaining them requires greater delta-v.
Due to atmospheric drag, the lowest altitude at which an object in a circular orbit can complete at least one full revolution without propulsion is approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi).
The expression "orbital spaceflight" is mostly used to distinguish from sub-orbital spaceflights, which are flights where the apogee of a spacecraft reaches space, but the perigee is too low.