The satellite can be rotated around the earth through different paths.
Types of satellite orbits slideshare.
This orbit is most useful orbit for communication purposes.
Russian communications satellites and the sirius radio satellites currently use this type of orbit.
In practice only 1 1 ratio geosynchronous and 1 2 ratios semi synchronous are common.
Types of satellite orbits 1.
What is satellite orbit.
1975 their high orbits and visible light and infrared sensors allow for constantsurveillance of weather patterns over the entire planet and have enabledgoes to revolutionize the science of weather prediction.
Polar orbits are a type of low earth orbit as they are at low altitudes between 200 to 1000 km.
These are called as orbits of the satellite.
An orbit whose period is a rational multiple of the average rotational period of the body being orbited and in the same direction of rotation as that body.
Adapted from fundamentals of space systems by vincent l.
Pisacane 2005 the molniya orbit is highly eccentric.
Even a deviation within 20 to 30 degrees is still classed as a polar orbit.
The satellite moves in an extreme ellipse with the earth close to one edge.
A passive satellite can be further subdivided into two types namely natural satellites and artificial.
This means the track of the satellite as seen from the central body will repeat exactly after a fixed number of orbits.
Synchronous orbit it lies in the equatorial plane of the earth.
Sun synchronous orbit sso is a particular kind of polar orbit.
A satellite can move in three types of orbits namely a.