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Reply To: Possible visibility of Virgin Orbit launch from the UK on January 9th

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8 January 2023 at 5:19 pm #615045
Nick James
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Grant/Paul,

Yes, ignore my comment about it being 500 km up over LP. I forgot that the altitudes in the flight profile plot are kft. 500 kft = 152 km so at SECO it is indeed around 160 km up.

Damned imperial/metric confusion again.

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