Here’s how a satellite ended up as a ghostly apparition on Google Earth (arstechnica.com)

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 3 months ago

This is so neat. Makes me want to do orbital mechanics

[-] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Orbital mechanics is wild - satellites move so fast (like 7-8 km/s) that Google Earth's cameras literally catch them as streaks or ghostly blurs because the exposure time is longer than the satelite's transit through the frame!

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