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The cited Wikipedia page links to a wonderful SVG animation[0] comparing the orbit levels (do we say altitude?) and speed of GPS, GLONASS and Galileo. [0]: htt
by Loic 10y ago
The cited Wikipedia page links to a wonderful SVG animation[0] comparing the orbit levels (do we say altitude?) and speed of GPS, GLONASS and Galileo.
[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Comparison_satellite_navigation_orbits.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Comparis...
- joosters 10y agoIs there a reason why GPS has an orbital period exactly half of that of a geostationary orbit?
- Rebelgecko 10y agoIt means that the satellite will be in the same place at the same time every day (give or take about a hundred miles per day of drift)