How Does The ISS Stay In Orbit?
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Exactly how does the International Space Station stay up there?
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im 12 and i am trying to prove my point to my parents that the ISS is in constant freefall lol
@@jakestellar4600 bruh the earth isn’t flat
go easy on them, Owen. we (parents) don’t know exactly what we’re doing, but having a debate like this means that they’re doing a great job.
@@sphericalcow5258 take a physics class
Just show the video to them
@@JerrySmith_598 He didn't say it was. Lol
You should watch the video. 😉
One of the finest explanations ever.Could you make a video on how rockets get into orbit pls?
@@EvanBMMA can u explain me how satellite maintain its orbital speed. yeah i know that satellite get its momentum from rocket by which it was launched.
But my question is how it can maintain its momentum??
@@aadi2625 Because it constantly falls towards the earth, also the iss has to accelerate from time to time else orbit would decay in 2 years and it will fall back on earth!
@@LuigiCotocea How are satellites orbiting Earth if they're relying solely on momentum? 😂😂😂
I've just been curious to know how the ISS gained it's speed of over 17000 miles an hr.
What propelled it to that speed
The Space Shuttle. That brought all the pieces to orbit.
@@PsychoMuffinSDM so while the space shuttle is travelling at that speed, it just releases the ISS part and the part continues in that speed?
@@uzomaeze4954 yeah. That’s conservation of momentum. It’s just like a zero g plane. One the plane, you, and any other objects are moving at the same rate, all those things seem to float relative to each other.
@@PsychoMuffinSDM😂😂😂 they assembled the ISS in space & hoped for the best huh? No space flight tests or hovering abilities or the ability to constantly fly around Earth as Earth is orbiting the Sun at 67,000mph while it's chasing the Sun at the same time through the galaxy at 500,000mph 😂😂😂 Are you that dumb?
@@uzomaeze4954😂😂😂😂😂😂
imagine being the guy to operate the rocket that day to boost the iss back into orbit and you slept the whole day because you got wasted the night before at some NASA party.
"Uhhhhh Houston. . . . . . . . . uhhhhhh where's the space station?"
wow that was a freakin funny comment but u didnt get no likes ,they must just be but hurt cause that was funny af
Come Lets Watch the Rain As Its Falling Down
It's raining ISS pieces.
It's weird when you think that earth is hurtling through space yet this little thing exists as though the earth isn't travelling around the sun.
How it moves at 6km/sec ?? Engines ! Energy source ?? Where can I get it's answer ?
@BackYard Engineer and what's your point?
Because the space station has so much speed, it stays in orbit. If the earths gravity didn’t affect it, it would continue into space. However the earths gravity does affect it, constantly pulling it down while the ISS’s speed is able to counteract it just enough. Think of it like you are swinging a ball around you attached to a string. You are the earth, and the string is your gravity. However the ball is traveling fast enough to stay in orbit around you.
Same question I was asking myself, I got an answer that there is an engine that boost it to stay up
There is nothing except very very thin atmosphere to slow it down and it takes a long time. They boost it once a month I believe.
@@JerrySmith_598being that you need a string makes that example disqualified as a actual scientific experiment but a great way to explain your theory…
Does anyone know where to find a video showing this actually happen?
😂😂😂😂
So cool.
Then what about thousand of sattelite up there?? Any booster from space craft?
Hi rocky, hope that you are well. The ISS is the largest artificial satellite in orbit. It is also in a very low Earth orbit, just some 400km up. Consequently it experiences quite a lot of drag and its orbit has to be boosted periodically. All other satellites are much smaller and in higher orbits so experience much less drag. All satellite orbits degrade to some extent over time but usually this is not significant over its working life. So, no they do not need to be boosted, nor is there any mechanism to do this that I know of. Satellites will occasionally re enter Earth's atmosphere but most simply burn out on reentry. Take care.
@@TheWokeFlatEarthTruth so is this why the earth doesn't fall into the sun but the iss falls into earth? because the iss finds drag since its in a lower orbit?
@@IWKS1 Basically yes. And that is why the velocity of the ISS has to be boosted every few months to keep it at about 400km altitude. Take care.
By that time iss dosen’t need spacecraft to reboost it.the russian orbital segment has thrusters that lift the entire space station.
Yeah, I don’t know why this video said it’s another rocket.
good football exaple
The real question is who is boosting the moon?
moon is a lot further away.
so its not affected by the air drag like ISS is.
its not slowing down like ISS is from it so it doesnt need boost
What spatrk said, plus it's insanely massive so it would be very difficult to slow it down.
Um, maybe I'm mistaken, but didn't scientists just say that the moon was actually IN earth's atmosphere?
You’re definitely mistaken
@@ImUsingMyAcount They’re right actually. The moon is well within the geocorona.
The atmosphere technically extends to the end of earth’s sphere of influence (the extent of earths gravitational pull), which is 1.2 m km, however the karman line (the point that we call the “end” of the atmosphere) is only 30 km up while the ISS is 400 km up.
@THE ROBLOX PRO it depends what your definition of space is.
An atmosphere so thin that it would be unrecognizable as an atmosphere.
The space station that’s not in space lol
Technically the moon isn’t in space either
@@JerrySmith_598 Fakenews.
@@PCMRvsconsole while the Karman line is the accepted end of the atmosphere, the earths atmosphere technically extends to 1.2 million kilometers, which is the approximate height for earths sphere of influence. Since the moon is only 395,000 km at its apoapsis and 394,000 km at its periapsis, it’s technically still in the earths atmosphere.
@@JerrySmith_598 damn Jerry that's interesting.
Wait so it actually IS falling down and is pushed back to it's orbit by other spacecrafts? Other explanations always say that flies at "just the right speed" to stay on orbit by itself...
This video got it wrong, the ISS is not pushed by other ships. It has its own engine. The engine accelerates it laterally to the surface to make it go faster. This raises its orbital height on the opposite side of the planet.
So if they are experiencing drag why don’t they go outside the atmosphere and orbit there
To much radiations for astronauts if they go too high
@@_charliezard_7218 okay
@@felreymiguel5734 okay
I think to maintain the speed, they need to stay close to the drag, if the go up they might lose the speed
The atmosphere extends to 1.2 million km (earths sphere of influence(earths gravity)) and going above that would put the iss into a solar orbit, because the earths gravity wouldn’t reach there.
Its not in orbit. It got shot down. Crashed into eastern canada causing lots of fires.
The video is not exactly correct. You suppose to show the earth spinning in regards to space and Iss. Iss doesnt have the fuel to travel by itself 25000 km /h but because earth is spinning it looks like the Iss is moving that fast
Why not have it in actual space? What is the benefit of needing to boost it regularly?
If it's in a higher orbit it takes more energy to reach with a spacecraft, and also more energy to return to earth. I'm thinking the altitude it's at was probably a good compromise between atmospheric friction and the cost of many trips to it and back from Earth's surface.
Does it mean we can push the ISS to the moon ?
I am not sure because those solar panels might break
In theory, yes.
You would need a huge booster to reach escape velocity (Mach 33) with the ISS. It could probably be done tho! I would love to see us try it as a last experiment instead of letting it burn up!
but why? (to answer, yea we could.)
Okay.
So it experiences 90% of earths gravity, but falling at somewhere between 7-8 feet per hour provides weightlessness?
No, it’s not the lowering of the altitude due to air resistance that provides weightlessness, but rather the iss falling around the earth as an orbit. It’s like the airplanes that go parabolic flights to make you float.
So it's still on earth
Technically still in the atmosphere, yes.
if earth is also moving around sun at 1000 kmph how does the iss keep up?
Momentum. Why would it slow down?
Surely the horizontal speed *increases* when drag removes energy from the orbit and the altitude is reduced?
It doesn't really work like that. In fact it is the opposite. What you said is partially true. To follow a lower orbit an object must have more speed in order to move around it, but this doesn't mean that every time you get closer your speed is going to go up. Angular speed does but horizontal speed doesn't (they are two different things, you can move with the same horizontal speed around a point but the angular speed is higher the more you get close to the center point along the radius of a circumference). The lower orbit it takes is explained because drag lowers the horizontal speed of the craft, making its apoapsis lower each orbit.
I hope this was clear, english is not my first language, i tried my best without using complicated words. Have a nice day!
@@ribaaz like in ksp when i have an eliptical orbit it speeds up as it falls but once it reaches the equator it starts to loose speed again!
I thought the ISS had solar panels that charge and then push the spacecraft back away from the earth... they surely don’t send a rocket every time to do it, do they!?!?!
They have boosters and also the ISS wont (or at least I think) fall towards earth since it is so nearby Earth the ISS with follow the shape of the Earth and orbit it like the moon
@@owenalvarez7371 so fake...exactly what kind of combustion is executed to provide the necessary thrust that won't damage the solar arms that are half a football length in either direction. Any type of force would snap those panel arms off.
@@Smok33_ 0.01 meters per second should do it
Solar panels provide power to the onboard equiplment, they don't provide propellent for thrusters.
solar panels aren't thrusters
This is the most ridiculous explanation of orbital mechanics I've yet encountered.
STOP USING MILES
Ha, agreed.
i think thats wrong cuz the ISS has boosters (i might be wrong aswell)
You are correct. The ISS has boosters on its starboard end.
2 main engines + the resupplying ships can also help
Because it's constantly falling past the center of the gravity of the earth. Throw something hard enough and it never comes down.
you gotta throw it from a point in space though, throwing objects from the surface will always make its trajectory parabolic and not an orbit. this is why rockets go up and then sideways.
Tornado kinda effect.
@@alexandergalitevstudentfvh8696
Please I'm curious to know, what accelerated the ISS to it's current speed.
I believe it was assembled in space.
How then did it gain speeds of over 17000 miles per hr
@@uzomaeze4954
Have you ever heard of the space shuttle?
@@carcinogen60yearsago so while the space shuttle is travelling at that speed, it just releases the ISS part and the part continues in that speed?
Madness 😒😒
Hey that’s not a foot vall
BS. Its Fake
It's visible and it's there. But I do not believe that anyone is on board.
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