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How high is space from the earth?

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Average orbit, 340 kilometers, or 210 miles.

It drops about 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) per month, so every time the Space Shuttle links up with it, the Shuttle boosts it up about 10 miles or so.

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Man-made satellites are either in low, medium or high earth orbits, depending on their function. The closest ones, including the International space station, are in a low earth orbit, up to a height of 2000 km. The International Space Station orbits at a height of around 340km, while the Hubble Telescope is around 595km.

At higher altitudes, satellites will orbit more slowly, taking longer to make one orbit. The medium Earth orbit extends to 35,786km above the Earths surface, from here the high earth orbit begins.

At this point, the time taken for a satellite to orbit once around the earth is 24 hours, the same as one day. 35,786km is a special orbit for Geo-stationary satellites. Since they orbit the earth in the same time that it takes the earth to spin once on its axis, it means that the satellite can stay in roughly the same spot over the earth.

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The distance from Earth to the Internatonal Space Station (ISS) is only a tiny fraction of the distance from Earth to Moon. The ISS is maintained at an orbit with a minimum altitude of 278 km to a maximum of 460 km. The distance from the Earth to the Moon ranges from 356,400 km to 406,700 km.

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Scientists believe that beyond our known galaxy, that other galaxies exist that are even larger than ours. Obviously, we don't know the exact size of space, but as others noted, scientists suspect it may be infinite.

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Depends what you call "space". You might say that space starts where Earth's atmosphere ends. Earth's atmosphere doesn't end abruptly, but after a few hundred km., there is not much atmosphere to speak of.

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That depends on the purpose of the photograph. If you are photographing weather patterns, the satellite needs to be pretty high to get a wide-area picture. Weather satellites are often in geosynchronous orbit at 23,000 miles high.

If you are photographing things and people on the Earth, you want to be as low as possible in order to get a good photo. The lowest you can go and maintain a stable orbit would be about 120 miles; any lower, and the drag of the atmosphere will eventually bring the satellite down.

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The International Space Station orbits at an altitude of about 150 miles. Future space stations will likely be positioned in geosynchronous orbits at about 23,000 miles up, or in the Lagrangian points of the Earth-Moon system, about 250,000 miles from Earth.

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The international Space Station orbits the Earth once every 90 minutes or so. There's a NASA web site that will show you the current position of the ISS (and more than a thousand other satellites). And spaceweather.com has a link to an overflights calculator that will show you when the ISS will be visible in the pre-dawn or evening sky from your location.

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Depends what you call "space". You might say that space starts where Earth's atmosphere ends. Earth's atmosphere doesn't end abruptly, but after a few hundred km., there is not much atmosphere to speak of.

Depends what you call "space". You might say that space starts where Earth's atmosphere ends. Earth's atmosphere doesn't end abruptly, but after a few hundred km., there is not much atmosphere to speak of.

Depends what you call "space". You might say that space starts where Earth's atmosphere ends. Earth's atmosphere doesn't end abruptly, but after a few hundred km., there is not much atmosphere to speak of.

Depends what you call "space". You might say that space starts where Earth's atmosphere ends. Earth's atmosphere doesn't end abruptly, but after a few hundred km., there is not much atmosphere to speak of.

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Satellites orbit in several different regions of space in the sky. Orbits fall into 3 main categories based on distance: Low Earth Orbit (LEO) at an altitude of 160 - 2000 km, Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) at an altitude of 2000 - 35000 km, and High Earth Orbit (HEO) at altitudes greater than 36000 km. One special orbit in which a large number of satellites have been placed into is a geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO), which is at the exact distance such that the satellite orbits the earth at the same angular velocity at which the earth spins. Most satellites orbit in circular orbits. A few are in elliptical orbits in which their distance varies.

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