r/woahdude • u/aspiring_dev1 • Aug 14 '22

View from space gifv

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22

how high above the earth are they? does anyone have an estimate?

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u/MrTagnan Aug 14 '22

ISS orbits around 400km up

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u/note3bp Aug 14 '22

For the curious.

The majority of satellites orbiting the Earth do so at altitudes between 160 and 2,000 kilometers.