Sprint 91 · Chapter 7

Satellite Energy, Weightlessness And Tides

Why a satellite's total energy is negative, what it costs to raise or free one, why astronauts float, and why the Moon rules the tides.

1. 1Kinetic Half, Potential Whole, Total Negative
2. 2Raising the Satellite's Orbit
3. 3Freeing a Satellite at 400 km
4. 4Exercise 7.6 and Energy Checks
5. 5Free Fall, Orbits and Tides
6. 6Floating Inside the Space Station
7. 7Exercises 7.8 and 7.9
8. 8Big Stations and Tides