Message posted by Griffon_314 on April 12, 2012 at 9:25:16 PST:
Folks, OTV2's orbit is a classic low-inclination, low-earth orbit. As such, it flies over every spot on the earth within about 40 degrees of latitude of the equator, every day. This is not a geostationary orbit, where you can describe it as orbiting "above" a spot on earth. So let's please be careful with statements like "it's orbit shifted from over Afghanistan and North Korea to the Middle East and it's now over Israel Southern Iran". That simply isn't true - it overflies all of those locations with same frequency it overflies Disneyland. The n2yo orbital diagrams only show a few orbits - it makes more than 15 orbits a day, and the earth spins underneath it so each orbit's ground track precesses significantly.
In Reply to: Re: OTV 2 posted by RickB on April 11, 2012 at 14:54:58 PST:
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