Prof. Sam Lawler on Nostr: TIL that calculating orbital decay timescales for satellites and junk actually ...
TIL that calculating orbital decay timescales for satellites and junk actually requires using Bessel functions, which I have not thought about much at all since 2nd year applied math class at Caltech. Ouch.
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