Earth Orbits
| orbit | center-to-center distance |
altitude above the Earth's surface |
speed | Orbital period | specific orbital energy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earth's surface (for comparison) | 6,400 km | 0 km | 7.89 km/s (17,650 mph) | — | -62.6 MJ/kg |
| Low Earth orbit | 6,600 to 8,400 km | 200 to 2,000 km | circular orbit: 7.8 to 6.9 km/s (17,450 mph to 15,430 mph) respectively elliptic orbit: 8.2 to 6.5 km/s respectively |
89 to 128 min | -17.0 MJ/kg |
| Molniya orbit | 6,900 to 46,300 km | 500 to 39,900 km | 10.0 to 1.5 km/s (22,370 mph to 3,335 mph) respectively | 11 h 58 min | -4.7 MJ/kg |
| GEO | 42,000 km | 35,786 km | 3.1 km/s (6,935 mph) | 23 h 56 min | -4.6 MJ/kg |
| Orbit of the Moon | 363,000 to 406,000 km | 357,000 to 399,000 km | 1.08 to 0.97 km/s (2,416 to 2,170 mph) respectively | 27.3 days | -0.5 MJ/kg |
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