🛰️ Orbit & Free Fall

Discover how a station keeps falling around Earth.

No air resistance in this model

Inside the station
Gravity here —
Wall push on astronaut —

Experiment
Initial sideways speed
Speed for a circle here —
Escape speed here —

Playback speed

Engines
Speed up
Brake
Engine push —
Engine delta-v —

View

Measurements
Path type —
Altitude above Earth —
Current speed —
Time in the experiment —