Pat Gray
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Well, they all will.
They all will.
A spacecraft lifted off on a Vega C rocket on Tuesday from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana on the northeastern coast of South America.
A little under an hour later, Smile detached at 700 kilometers, about 435 miles of altitude, to make their own way toward an extremely elliptical orbit thousands of kilometers above the surface of the planet.
That could be five inches, could be a million miles.
Nobody knows.
There's no way to tell.
Well, they claim it's good.
Kilometers.
Can we stop with kilometers?
Why are American stories being written in kilometers?
You know what?
We've effectively switched.
We've effectively made the switch.
Almost sounds like it.
It does.
I mean, everything you watch on TV measured in kilometers.
Most stories also.
Most stories would be detached at 435 miles, 700 kilometers in parentheses.
Instead, it's turned around now.