When does droo orbit go from Low, to Medium, to High?, like in real life at some point Low Earth Orbit [LEO] becomes Medium Earth Orbit [MEO] and then into High Earth Orbit [HEO], when does this happen with droo?. I'm assuming since Droo obviously isnt a 1:1 with earth the altitude where it changes over is different.
TLDR: What altitudes of droo's orbit are the ingame equivalent of LEO, MEO, and HEO in real life
@Toinkove Alright so I compared a zoomed out image of Droo [zoomed out so you can see the SOI bubble] to a diagram of where LEO, MEO, and HEO are located. I then made a blue circle around the rough matching points and what I got was:
LDO [obviously] starts at 80Km [though admittedly its safer to go to 81 or 82Km] and ends at 23Mm [so basically right on top of Brigo's orbit]
MDO starts when LDO ends so 23Mm, and MDO ends at roughly 330Mm
and finally HDO starts at 330Mm and ends at 412-413Mm
[keep in mind if you use any tiny bit of math these altitudes immediately become inaccurate cause this is trying to base altitudes off of a possibly incorrect, and definitely not to scale image of real altitudes, also yes I did adjust where I estimated the orbits to be to factor in the fact the image is not to scale, and I feel I did a okay job of it, but once again if you use any math or physics my altitudes become incorrect so take these altitudes with a grain of salt]
@Toinkove alright, im gonna try to make a diagram type thing of where the orbits should be and there heights
Yeah I had to look up the SOI boundary (don't know that one off hand). Seems Droo's SOI extends out too 412 Mm (million meters) so that would be ... 412,000 km right
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Although I actually can get an apogee of 413 Mm before leaving Droo orbit when playing with a burn node. So the SOI extends somewhere to 412-413 Mm
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And just for reference: Geostationary Orbit is around 8802 km!
@BlueStarAerospace not sure if any of my sentence made sense, but by ''making them fit in between 80Km and the SOI'' I mean looking at like a diagram of what altitudes LEO, MEO, and HEO are and marking the altitudes that are in a similar spot in-between 80Km and Droo's SOI
@Toinkove What is Droos SOI?, I want to see if I can make somewhat sensible altitudes for them by using the altitudes of the actual orbits and making them fit in between 80Km, and the SOI, cause atleast from what my lack of math skills is telling me it isnt the easiest or most realistic to try to use math to find out [keep in mind I suck at math, like a lot]
As far as pressure goes: at around 100 km above Earth air pressure becomes 0.0 kPa! Going off Earth and Droo’s diameters the is would translate to about 20 km above Droo. But as previously stated, Droo’s atmosphere isn’t scaled back as much as Droo’s volume relative to earth! Droo’s atmosphere drops to 0.00 kPa at around 78.1-78.2 km.
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So for atmospheric comparison you can set 100km above earth equal to 78.2 on Droo!
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The specific boundaries between LEO, MEO and HEO as far as I can tell were simply set at certain altitudes for definitional purposes and not necessarily because of any major orbital property differences between them (beyond the obvious one of having different orbital periods). I’m not sure if you were to scale them to Droo if you would want to scale them to there physical distance above Droos surface or scaled to the atmospheric properties of Droos atmosphere. I’m not even sure scaling them makes any sense or weather Droo should entirely have its own diffrent boundaries for these types of orbits to be honest!
Well there’s a bit of a problem with this:
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As you correctly mention Droo is scaled smaller then Earth in terms of diameter. But the atmospheric properties of Droo are not scaled back as much as Droo’s physical properties are.
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For example: The ISS orbits earth about 420km above earth, this is equivalent to about 84 km above Droo. You can actually orbit earth for a while at around 200km but the equivalent for Droo would be 40km (which is an impossible orbit for Droo). So as you can see Droo’s atmosphere and physical size are scaled back relative to earths but not proportionately, Droos atmosphere is more dense then earths is (assuming earth was scaled down to the size of Droo). Hopefully that makes sense!
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So this makes answering your question a bit difficult. Altitudes relative to Droo’s size? Or relative to parameters of Droos atmosphere?
@BlueStarAerospace I forgot droo's atmosphere actually ends around 78Km so you can scratch off the 80Km being the start thing