Questions tagged [inclination]
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Why use a retrograde orbit?
I've been looking around and saw
on What is the highest inclination orbit ever attained from a Cape Canaveral launch? a question about launching into retrograde orbit. Of course, due to range safety ...
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What orbital inclinations will be launched into from Scotland?
It has recently been announced that the A'Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland, Scotland will be host to the United Kingdom's first vertical launch site (assuming they can get anything done with just £30m ...
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Was the lunar landing site always in the same plane as the CM's orbit?
Did the Apollo command module always pass directly over the lunar landing site? Or were they sometimes in different planes?
My inclination (pun intended) is that staying in the same plane would ...
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Why do rockets launching to the ISS from Florida point at 45 degrees to reach a 51.6 degree inclination?
In the Everyday Astronaut video about roll programs, it was mentioned in passing that in order to launch to a 51.6 degree inclination (to rendezvous with the ISS), the rocket must point at about 45 ...
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Why does launching east result in an orbital inclination equal to the latitude of the launch site?
As mentioned briefly in this answer and this Everyday Astronaut video:
And just as a reference, if you launched straight east out of Kennedy Space Center, you'd be on a 28.6° inclination which you ...
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Inclination maneuvers for GEO satellites
I was wondering about the orbital location to perform inclination nulling maneuvers for GEO satellites.
I know from basic astrodynamics that the best place to perform inclination correction is at ...
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What is the maximum inclination a geosynchronous orbit can have?
A geosynchronous orbit is one where a satellite's orbital period (more or less) matches a planet's rotation period. However, this is distinct from a geostationary orbit, where a satellite must remain ...
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Distribution of satellites by inclination
What is the distribution of Earth orbiting satellites by inclination? In other words, what inclinations are more or less popular? I work with Earth observation myself, where many satellites are Sun-...
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How do you correct inclination at launch to ISS?
Launching from Florida 28.5 degree inclination to rendezvous with ISS at 400km to 51 degree inclination of ISS
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What's the highest heliocentric inclination achieved by a deep space probe, without using the outer planets?
Wikipedia and this answer explain that it will take several flyby's of Venus for ESA's Solar Orbiter to reach 34° of inclination.
Question: Currently, what's the highest heliocentric inclination ...
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Why does TDRS 1's inclination evolve so much differently than that of all the others starting in 1995?
The plot below is from the question Why do the geosynchronous TDRS satellites have this distribution of inclinations?, and the explanation says
Inclination and mean motion (rev/day) for TDRS ...
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How to calculate the change in inclination due to perturbations?
I would like to know the how much the inclination for a generic elliptical orbit changes over an unspecified period. The variation of inclination fluctuates as per a thread listed at the bottom.
I'd ...
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How can I “debounce” these TDRS satellite inclinations? (reconstruct the zero-crossings)
The plot below is from the question Why do the geosynchronous TDRS satellites have this distribution of inclinations?, and the explanation says
Inclination and mean motion (rev/day) for TDRS ...
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Do rockets headed to ISS get delta V benefit from Earth's rotation
A rocket on the launchpad moves Eastward with the rest of the earth as it rotates about its polar axis.
This means that on launch, the rocket already has a sizable eastward velocity component: ~460 m/...
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Earth Rotational Vector and Orbital Inclination
I'm doing a project regarding orbital launches and i'm kinda confused about how to calculate orbital inclination from launch sites. I've simplified my model so I can ignore fuel and the rocket ...
