> > Perigee altitude of satellites decayed between 2007 and 2011 > http://mada.la.coocan.jp/sat/misc/decay20072011a.png > > Makoto Kamada > > That's a really nice graph. But I have a question. I see that some satellites were still at a 400Km perigee one day or two before decay. This means that the apogee was also 400Km or greater. How can it be that a satellite orbiting at at least 400Km decays after one or two days? There shouldn't be enough drag up there to bring it down, or am I getting it totally wrong? Thank you Cristian Arezzini -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20120517/61170e55/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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