Skip to main content
Space Exploration

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

Required fields*

3
  • $\begingroup$ It's not like the satellite doesn't have its own engines, which can correct all the inaccuracies of the final stage. Often satellites are placed into insertion orbit (Hohmann transfer orbit) but they need both to circularize and adjust the inclination on their own. $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 24, 2016 at 13:26
  • 5
    $\begingroup$ The Vanguard satellites did not have any propulsion. $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 25, 2016 at 2:12
  • 2
    $\begingroup$ Correct: no propulsion on the “grapefruit.” $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 25, 2016 at 17:12