Orbital Altitudes Of Many Significant Satellites Of Earth

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Orbital Altitudes
Of Many Significant
Satellites Of Earth
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Low Earth Orbit (0 - 2.000 km)

37.6 - Self Propelled Jet Aircraft Flight Ceiling

215 - Sputnik-1 The First artificial satellite of Earth

340 - International Space Station

390 - Former Russian Space Station MIR

595 - Hubble Space Telescope

600-800 - Sun-synchronous Satellites

700-1700 - Polar Orbiting Satellites

Medium Earth Orbit (2.000-35.786 km)

20.350 - Global Positioning System

35.786 - Geosynchronus (GEO) and Geostationary (GSO) Satellites

High Earth Orbit (above 35.786 km)

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