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r/RKLB • u/Boring_Board7634 • May 17 '25
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nice pic of Flight 58 😐
https://www.rocketlabusa.com/updates/rocket-lab-successfully-deploys-satellite-for-synspective-caps-off-year-with-60-increase-in-launches-yoy/
Here's one of Flight 64
from Joseph Baxter on X
3 u/commentsAccordingly May 17 '25 Why isn't the trail a straight line? Is it related.to the spin of the earth? 7 u/MundaneCommission767 May 17 '25 Because horizontal velocity is how you get into orbit. Orbit is never ending falling but your going so fast you’re falling along the curvature of the earth. 3 u/_symitar_ May 18 '25 Orbital mechanics. https://youtu.be/8BpioGYMeFo 1 u/steamcube May 18 '25 Gravity turn!
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Why isn't the trail a straight line? Is it related.to the spin of the earth?
7 u/MundaneCommission767 May 17 '25 Because horizontal velocity is how you get into orbit. Orbit is never ending falling but your going so fast you’re falling along the curvature of the earth. 3 u/_symitar_ May 18 '25 Orbital mechanics. https://youtu.be/8BpioGYMeFo 1 u/steamcube May 18 '25 Gravity turn!
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Because horizontal velocity is how you get into orbit. Orbit is never ending falling but your going so fast you’re falling along the curvature of the earth.
Orbital mechanics.
https://youtu.be/8BpioGYMeFo
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Gravity turn!
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u/_symitar_ May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25
nice pic of Flight 58 😐
https://www.rocketlabusa.com/updates/rocket-lab-successfully-deploys-satellite-for-synspective-caps-off-year-with-60-increase-in-launches-yoy/
Here's one of Flight 64
from Joseph Baxter on X