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This is a normal post Great stuff, but can anyone on here tell me if the shot 0.24-0.30 represents actual speed?
There's quite a bit of time lapse on there, but how fast, relative the earth's surface is the ISS going?
 (I helped save b3ta! Varmint, Sun 8 Dec 2013, 22:46, Reply)
This is a normal post One orbit every 92 mins (or thereabouts)
Call it 90 mins (5400 seconds).

Earth circumference is approx 40000km so that's a surface velocity of ~7.4 km/sec
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 9 Dec 2013, 6:05, Reply)
This is a normal post What about the actual velocity though? Because its orbit must be more than 40000km.
Unless it's orbiting a few foot from the ground.

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Oh yeah, there it goes!
 (I helped save b3ta! spesh., Mon 9 Dec 2013, 10:01, Reply)