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Subject: Re: [M]: OT C-SAT and the re-entry
From: Andy Clews
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Tue Sep 23 01:13:00 1997

Gary Campbell wrote:
>
> What the heck is a sun-synchronous orbit?

I'm sure this is not what the original poster meant, but since you asked,
a spacecraft orbiting the sun with the same period as the sun's rotation
period (25.38 days) would be in heliosynchronous orbit. However, it would be
deep inside the orbit of Mercury and so close to the Sun that I bet it
wouldn't last very long! :-)


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Andy Clews, Computing Service, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, UK
A.Clews@sussex.ac.uk