Template:Earth orbits

Tangential velocities at altitude[edit]

Orbit	Center-to-center distance	Altitude above the Earth's surface	Speed	Orbital period	Specific orbital energy
Earth's own rotation at surface (for comparison— not an orbit)	6,378 km	0 km	465.1 m/s (1,674 km/h or 1,040 mph)	23 h 56 min 4.09 sec	−62.6 MJ/kg
Orbiting at Earth's surface (equator) theoretical	6,378 km	0 km	7.9 km/s (28,440 km/h or 17,672 mph)	1 h 24 min 18 sec	−31.2 MJ/kg
Low Earth orbit	6,600–8,400 km	200–2,000 km	Circular orbit: 7.7–6.9 km/s (27,772–24,840 km/h or 17,224–15,435 mph) respectively Elliptic orbit: 10.07–8.7 km/s respectively	1 h 29 min – 2 h 8 min	−29.8 MJ/kg
Molniya orbit	6,900–46,300 km	500–39,900 km	1.5–10.0 km/s (5,400–36,000 km/h or 3,335–22,370 mph) respectively	11 h 58 min	−4.7 MJ/kg
Geostationary	42,000 km	35,786 km	3.1 km/s (11,600 km/h or 6,935 mph)	23 h 56 min 4.09 sec	−4.6 MJ/kg
Orbit of the Moon	363,000–406,000 km	357,000–399,000 km	0.97–1.08 km/s (3,492–3,888 km/h or 2,170–2,416 mph) respectively	27.27 days	−0.5 MJ/kg