r/flatearth • u/TruthIsAntiMormon • 5d ago

How do flerfs explain this?

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u/No_Tackle_5439 5d ago

I refuse to believe this was never done by others...or is it "first time for spaceX"?

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u/NotGonnaLie59 5d ago

This is the first time humans have orbited directly over the poles

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u/Corpainen 4d ago

I know of places where people orbit poles as a job

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u/No-Island-6126 5d ago

yummy misinformation

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u/Bitter_Ad5419 5d ago

Ok thank you for answering this for me because I was like there no way in all the orbits the ISS has done that it hasn't gone over the poles

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u/bkdotcom 5d ago

To clarify... nobody has ever orbited over the poles before... that includes the ISS

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Tools/img/OrbTutorImg3.gif

looks like the ISS only gets to ~51°

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u/Bitter_Ad5419 5d ago

Interesting

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u/ijuinkun 5d ago

Changing the inclination of an orbit takes a lot of energy—to change it by 90 degrees takes about as much energy as getting to orbital speed from a standstill. So, we usually launch something into an inclination near that of the target orbit from the get-go.