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Orbit Lab
You are mission control. Pick a launch speed and watch real gravity bend the path around a living 3D planet. Too slow and it burns up. Too fast and it is gone for good. Then fire the engine to climb higher, dock with a space station and fly past the Moon in 10 missions, plus free play.
ages 8–12 · about 20 min
What you'll learn
- An orbit is sideways speed and gravity's pull in balance
- Why too slow falls back, too fast escapes, and just right goes round
- Speeding up at the low point lifts the far side of an orbit
- Testing an idea, then changing one thing at a time