SpaceX and the Polaris Dawn crew may be celebrating their milestone, but the riskiest endeavors are still ahead for this five-day mission — which is designed to push the limits of commercial ...
[Related: SpaceX will attempt the first commercial spacewalk.] Crew Dragon’s starting elliptical orbit included an apogee of roughly 745 miles and perigee of around 118 miles above Earth.
which had been in an orbit with a perigee of 7,634 kilometers and apogee of 34,953 kilometers. In that orbit, the company concluded, the debris posed “no immediate risk to active satellites.” ...