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		jvanderbot on Aug 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bring back hydrogen lifting gas Well fine. I meant that orbital speed (the "along track part") would increase if you lowered the altitude of a geosync object with rockets, string, or any other force, I think.

lazide on Aug 10, 2021 [–]

It doesn’t. If you pulled ‘down’, it would just make the orbit eccentric.

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