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You may have heard people refer to the “edge of space” – 100km – as the Kármán line. But what does that mean, and what’s so significant about it?
Simply put, the Kármán line is loosely defined as the altitude at which a fixed-wing aircraft would need to travel faster than orbital velocities to produce enough lift. This is a bit of a complex concept to understand, so I’ll break it down.
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