Comment on Astronauts dropped a tool bag during an ISS spacewalk, and you can see it with binoculars
BossDj@lemm.ee 10 months agoI think the two numbers are perigee and apogee distance. (Closest orbital point and furthest orbital point)
Comment on Astronauts dropped a tool bag during an ISS spacewalk, and you can see it with binoculars
BossDj@lemm.ee 10 months agoI think the two numbers are perigee and apogee distance. (Closest orbital point and furthest orbital point)
TauZero@mander.xyz 10 months ago
The joke is that the orbit was clearly originally reported in kilometers, but the article editor “helpfully” converted it to miles and reported it in miles as default, but it makes no sense now because the same “miles” number now equals two different “kilometers” numbers.
BossDj@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Hah I didn’t notice