The Satellite Orbit Tier List
Space is filled with satellites in interesting orbits, but which one is best? A crash course in astrodynamics in the format of "the BBC if they decided make a tier list video". 0:00 Introduction 1:05 Very Low Earth 1:55 International Space Station 2:36 Walker Constellation 3:12 Sun Synchronous 4:00 GPS 4:46 Flower 6:09 GEO 7:07 Graveyard 7:50 Molniya 8:22 Tundra 8:44 QZSS 9:11 Distant Retrograde 9:49 Lagrange 10:43 Outroduction --------- II --------- This video was brought to you by an unhealthy amount of coffee and our awesome Patrons at / atomicfrontier . --------- II --------- Hi, I'm James. I explore the world looking for interesting engineering stories which explore complex issues in interesting ways. I hold a First-Class Honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Australia and am currently studying a Masters of Space Systems Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. My website is https://www.atomicfrontieronline.com, I occasionally tweet from / atomicfrontiers , and you can join the Atomic Frontier Discord server to talk about cool engineering stuff at / discord . You can help support my work and see some cool behind-the-scenes content at / atomicfrontier .
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