In article ,
Roy Smith wrote:
"our three state-of-the-art satellites that rotate in figure eight,
geo-synchronous orbits around the earth"
I know what a geo synchronous orbit is, but what's the "figure eight"
part all about?

This is probably a reference to the sort-of-figure-eight ground track
(centered on the equator) traced out by a spacecraft in an *inclined*
geosynchronous orbit.
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