3 stories tagged atmospheric-drag, newest first.
44 points by whh | 16 comments
The Register article on astronomer Tony Phillips of spaceweather.com using Starlink satellites' orbital decay to measure atmospheric expansion as a 'planetary barometer'.
![Screenshot of osti.gov: Calculating atmospheric drag on satellites for a Cubesat [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/26/ff5790bb-cd43-4c52-92ef-171b8d418a69.jpg)
31 points by walrus01 | 7 comments
A 2010 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory technical report (LLNL-TR-453771) by W. de Vries on calculating atmospheric drag for Cubesat satellites.
8 points by NKosmatos | 2 comments
A Spaceweather.com explainer on using orbital drag data from Starlink satellites to measure changes in upper-atmosphere density, effectively a planetary barometer.