And if whatever sheared off the part of the spaceship/satellite changed it’s momentum. If I’m on a space station, and fling something directly towards the earth, from my perspective it will fall directly towards earth for quite some time (probably out of eyesight) before the orbital movements make it behave in odd (compared to on-the-surface) ways.
Uhm no. While you are in orbit you simply revolve around a parent object (a planet for example) but you still are subjected to its (and by proxy it to yours) gravitational pull. Eventually something that came lose will deorbit.
Keyword here is eventually. Sure it will, but what it definitely will not do is accelerate towards planet earth at what looks like 9.81m/s². AKA falling.
Stuff falling towards earth from a spaceship/satelite.
You’re already in orbit, things might wander away but it won’t be attracted in any specific direction.
This one doesn’t apply in Star Wars because nobody orbits anything in Star Wars. Antigravity is cheaper than accelerating into an orbital vector.
There are lot of films where this doesn’t happen for sure 😃
Then why don’t the continents ever turn out from under them?
Because the movie is only 2 hours long and it takes several hours for that to happen.
The movie is 2 hours, but sometimes the events are much longer.
Yes, but during the parts of those events when we weren’t looking, they moved the ships over so they’d be in the same place relative to the ground.
Thanks for the insight, dragonfucker
Isn’t the death star in orbit at one point?
Yes the second Death Star is in orbit around Endor.
Don’t forget the universally established upward direction so all ships are magically oriented exactly the same when they meet
Really depends on how low you are.
And if whatever sheared off the part of the spaceship/satellite changed it’s momentum. If I’m on a space station, and fling something directly towards the earth, from my perspective it will fall directly towards earth for quite some time (probably out of eyesight) before the orbital movements make it behave in odd (compared to on-the-surface) ways.
Well, flung not falling then? Until it enters the atmosphere and it’s forward speed gets breaked down I guess.
How much drag can you get in orbit lol?
drag in orbit? 0, microgravity that pulls on everything even in high orbit? yes.
What is this microgravity?
I mean the earth pulls with its gravity, and your vessel/satelite overcome that by being in orbit. Something coming lose will just stay in orbit too.
Uhm no. While you are in orbit you simply revolve around a parent object (a planet for example) but you still are subjected to its (and by proxy it to yours) gravitational pull. Eventually something that came lose will deorbit.
Keyword here is eventually. Sure it will, but what it definitely will not do is accelerate towards planet earth at what looks like 9.81m/s². AKA falling.