RE: [amsat-bb] strange orbit

["Robert McGwier" <rwmcgwier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Satellites parked at 0, 120 degrees, and 240 degrees MA  for an initial
condition in a shared orbit of this type will never touch nor even come
close.  These satellites have extensive station keeping to maintain such
a configuration.

Not so strange

Bob
N4HY

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org [mailto:owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org]On
Behalf Of John B. Stephensen
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 3:19 AM
To: G8IFF/KC8NHF; amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] strange orbit


Most geosynchronous satellite orbits show a figure-8 pattern when viewed
from
Earth. It is just a variation in the position of the subsatellite point
because
the orbital plane isn't exactly 0 degrees.

The Sirius marketing people must be running out of things to put in their
press
releases.

73,

John
KD6OZH
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