Orbtial Altitutdes - Need Help Calculating Them

[inigma]

For the Age of Satellites campaign, I want to expand it to include weather, spy, mapping, and communications satellites using various orbits:

Geocentric (Sputnik)

Geosynchronus/Geostationary/Clark orbit (communications and weather)

Polar (mapping)

Polar Sun Synchronus (spy)

Graveyard orbit (retired satellites)

And for a later Campaign: GPS constellation

For this I need to know the relative altitudes for Low Kerbal Orbit, Medium Kerbal Orbit, and High Kerbal Orbit converted from here:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Orbitalaltitudes.jpg

Anyone want to take a stab? I've figured out the following:

Sputnik 1 = 140km

Kerbal Space Station = 210km

Kir = 220km

Kubbal Space Telescope = 260km

LKO: 70km-1400km?

MKO: 1400km-?

HKO: ?-?

I thought with space on earth being at 100km, and Kerbin is 70km, I'd calculate relative altitudes based on a fraction:

Earth Altitude/100km (to get multiplier) * 70km over Kerbin.

but I'm just not entire certain on the best method of conversion. Ideas?

Edited June 7, 2013 by inigma

[Sᴄɪɴᴛɪʟʟᴀᴛᴏʀ]

It doesn't work that smoothly unfortunately, the atmosphere doesn't scale even remotely close to the planet itself. The radius of the Earth is 6,731 km and while the radius of Kerbin is 600 km, the atmosphere only ends 30 km sooner.

You're probably best going with the atmosphere scaling but you won't be able to get a perfect scale between the two universes due to the difference.

Edited June 7, 2013 by Sᴄɪɴᴛɪʟʟᴀᴛ�ʀ

[Zephram Kerman]

Well, according to the wiki, geosynchronous (sic) orbit is at an altitude of 2,868.75 km.

For practical purposes, my favorite orbit for stations is 230km. That altitude is above the 100x time-warp threshold, with a little bit of room below for visiting craft to time-warp as well.

Edited June 7, 2013 by Zephram Kerman