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Mar 28, 2014 at 15:35 answer added Tristan timeline score: 1
Jan 26, 2014 at 18:15 comment added AnonSubmitter85 @MarkAdler It's a normal cone; I just used the term half cone so that it would not be interpreted as a double cone.
Jan 26, 2014 at 5:00 comment added Mark Adler What do you mean "half cone"?
Jan 25, 2014 at 22:54 history edited TildalWave CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 25, 2014 at 21:59 history edited AnonSubmitter85 CC BY-SA 3.0
Made clear that I am after only a simple orbital model.
Jan 24, 2014 at 16:51 answer added Niket timeline score: 0
Jan 23, 2014 at 17:22 comment added AnonSubmitter85 @PearsonArtPhoto But that's a fundamentally different problem. What I am interested in is not whether a vehicle with a given set parameters is visible; rather, given that a vehicle is visible, what is the subset of orbital parameters that it must belong to.
Jan 23, 2014 at 16:23 comment added PearsonArtPhoto In theory, one could do this with equations, but it would really end up quite complex. In practice, it's usually easier to figure out where the satellite is, and if it's visible from the point on Earth.
Jan 23, 2014 at 13:13 history tweeted twitter.com/#!/StackSpaceExp/status/426342015283249152
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Jan 23, 2014 at 1:21 history asked AnonSubmitter85 CC BY-SA 3.0