Darin Sunley writes:
> It was my impression that if one wanted a reasonably circular orbit, the
Can't one use aerobraking, or conductively tethered sats in
geomagnetic field to circularize the orbit?
> only altitude one could jump into orbit from is the altitude of
> goesynchronous orbit. With any lower altitude, you need a lot more sideways
> velocity for a circular orbit then sitting at the top of a tower that tall
> gives you.
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