> > But most of the spares are in orbits around 68km. below > > the operational sateliites, and thus "lap" the > > operational satellites roughly every 11 days. > > Just to avoid confusion, satellites, such as Iridium 82, > in the spare orbit (around 711 x 708km) will lap the > operational satellites (at around 779 x 775 km) in just > under every 5 days. Do the lower satellites appear to travel about 78 m/sec faster than the operational satellites? [Just curious] ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/projectorion 5 hours behind UT (-5) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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