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2.8 days to disaster: Why we are running out of time in low earth orbit (phys.org)
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[โ€“] 4am@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

LEO begins at around 160km. The ISS is between 400 and 420km at any given moment

[โ€“] hayvan@piefed.world 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you, I stand corrected.