Early and Late TL9

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Most camera shots of the Enterprise in orbit show a portion of the planet covering most of the screen, which means a lot closer than geostationary orbit (from geostationary orbit, the Earth is 17 degrees).

The pictures are wrong for low orbit too. Views from the Shuttle or the ISS have Earth more than filling the whole screen.

Those views certainly weren't right for the SpaceX launch I just watched and that would rule out very low "powered" orbits that decay when the engiines go out.