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Sep 16, 2018·1 min read

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It wouldn’t matter. The space station isn’t in orbit because there’s no gravity up there — it stays in orbit because there is gravity, but the station’s motion causes it to fall at the same rate at which the Earth’s surface curves away from it. So, G should be the same measured in the space station as on Earth.

The pear-shaped aspect is handled by r² in the equation. G shouldn’t vary.
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