In yesterday’s post we suggested that the reason for the near polar orbit of most imaging satellites was to improve coverage. After a bit more research it turns out to be more interesting than that. Apparently there is a special orbit called Sun-synchronous orbit, which is designed such that the satellite always crosses a given […]
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