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Geostationary is very very far away and useless for nighttime. Imaging satellites usually have a shorter polar orbit that precesses east to west along with suns
by savoytruffle 6y ago
Geostationary is very very far away and useless for nighttime. Imaging satellites usually have a shorter polar orbit that precesses east to west along with sunshine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit