Kevin Fetter asked: > I thought it takes a few days to ch ange a satellite's orbit. Nope - it just depends how much fuel you are willing to use in a single burn. All the GPS satellites carry a large solid motor which fires after a couple days to change the orbit from transfer orbit to circular orbit. This is a totally standard profile for a GPS satellite. Now the motor's fired, it has to depend on its liquid thrusters and you'll see much smaller orbit changes. - Jonathan ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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