How far from the earth is the largest earth orbiting man made satellite?

Answer 1

One obvious one...it's the moon! There are however, several other large objects orbiting the earth and a 6th apart from the moon and the other four has been recently discovered. Capture by gravity by the earth of a new satellite is almost impossible. There would have to be specific forces (usually friction from dust, or perhaps the moons gravitational pull) that would allow for a new object to begin orbiting the Earth.

New smaller objects may appear and disappear, but the Moon will be Earth's only long term companion for quite some time. Eventually, however, it too will be lost. Currently, Luna is moving away from the earth at a rate of about two inches per year.

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Answer 2

The answer is so unpredictible, that you won't believe it! Right now there are 2,271 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Russia has the most satellites in orbit (1,324 satellites), followed by the U.S. with 658 satellites. Wouldn't there have been a collision by now? Weird, right. It's totally weird.

Answer 3

Nobody's really sure. There's a lot of junk in orbit. The National Space Science Data Center currently lists almost 7000 known spacecraft. Not all of those are still in orbit, of course, but a lot of other stuff is... booster stages, debris of former satellites, and so on.

Answer 4

Several thousand. Some of these are actual satellites that were intentionally launched into orbit; many more are fragments of the launch booster, or debris from the collisions of a couple of satellites. At least one was a toolbag dropped from an astronaut on a space walk from the ISS, although this may have deorbited already.

NASA is tracking about 19,000 separate objects each at least 1 inch in diameter, but a lot of that falls into the category of "space junk".

Answer 5

The Goddard Space Flight Center's lists 2,271 sate llites currently in orbit. Russia has the most satellites currently in orbit, with 1,324 satellites, followed by the U.S. with 658.

Answer 6

The largest earth orbiting man-made satellite, the International Space Station (ISS), orbits at an average altitude of about 420 kilometers (260 miles) above Earth's surface.

Answer 7

Around 26,000 space objects are orbiting Earth, only 560 are operational satellites.

Answer 8

The largest earth-orbiting man-made satellite is the International Space Station. Its orbit averages about 240 miles from the surface.

Answer 9

Earth has exactly one natural satellite. Its formal name

is "Luna", but most folks just call it "the moon".

Answer 10

The moon, at an average distance of 238,860 miles.