On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 09:01:57 +0100 "Phillip Clark" <phillipclark@btinternet.com> wrote: > You may wish to consider that many people consider any retrograde orbit is > Sun-synchronous. I know that this is the policy of Spaceflight Now, the > online news site. Wow, really? Do they consider the latest NROL satellite (inclination around 123 degrees) sun-synchronous? How about the Ofeq satellites (inclinations around 143 degrees)? I can see being sloppy with satellites with inclinations closer to polar (though I still think it's uncalled for, when all you have to do to be correct is to say "near polar" or "near sun-synchronous"), but in the case of the other examples I mention, it's past being sloppy and into being wrong. _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Apr 08 2012 - 17:08:54 UTC