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Old January 14th 04, 11:53 AM
Bjørn Ove Isaksen
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Default ISS in "Moon" role?

Explorer8939 wrote:
How many times a month does that happen?


As the article stated, 2 times per orbit. A full orbit is about 90 min.
Month of 30 days assumed:
30 days * 24 hour/day * 60 min/hour / 90 min/revolution * 2 times.

=21600 times.