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Old April 18th 13, 01:06 AM posted to sci.space.tech
Steve Willner
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Default Sun Synchronous Orbit

In article ,
Smit Kamal writes:
I was wondering if a satellite is in sun synchronous orbit and
if it completes 14 orbits per day then will the satellite be passing over
one particular location on the earth twice a day.ie 7 am in morning and 7 p
m at evening or will it pass over one location on the earth only once.


Twice a day, once going northbound and once southbound. Imagine
yourself near the Sun looking back at the Earth with the satellite
going round. From that perspective, the Earth rotates once in 24
hours, and a given spot on Earth (at least a spot not near either
pole) passes under the satellite path twice.

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