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Questions about orbits utilizing nodal precession so that spacecraft are able to maintain the same local mean solar time at any given point of an orbit. The effect is achieved through choosing inclination and altitudes of the apses.

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Are sun-synchronous orbits always North to South?

So someone told me that weather satellites orbit from north to south generally because that helps them to obtain a sun-synchronous orbit (his explanation for why this was true was too complicated for …
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