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  2. Sun-synchronous orbit - Wikipedia

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    An orbit will be Sun-synchronous when the precession rate ρ = ⁠ dΩ / dt ⁠ equals the mean motion of the Earth about the Sun n E, which is 360° per sidereal year (1.990 968 71 × 10 −7 rad/s), so we must set n E = ⁠ ΔΩ E / T E ⁠ = ρ = ⁠ ΔΩ / T ⁠, where T E is the Earth orbital period, while T is the period of the spacecraft ...

  3. Sidereal time - Wikipedia

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    Just as the Sun and Moon appear to rise in the east and set in the west due to the rotation of Earth, so do the stars. Both solar time and sidereal time make use of the regularity of Earth's rotation about its polar axis: solar time is reckoned according to the position of the Sun in the sky while sidereal time is based approximately on the ...

  4. Solar time - Wikipedia

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    On a prograde planet like the Earth, the sidereal day is shorter than the solar day. At time 1, the Sun and a certain distant star are both overhead. At time 2, the planet has rotated 360° and the distant star is overhead again (1→2 = one sidereal day). But it is not until a little later, at time 3, that the Sun is overhead again (1→3 = one solar day). More simply, 1→2 is a complete ...

  5. Jet Propulsion Laboratory Development Ephemeris - Wikipedia

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    Positions and velocities of the Sun, Earth, Moon, and planets, along with the orientation of the Moon, are stored as Chebyshev polynomial coefficients fit in 32 day-long segments. [10] The ephemerides are now available via World Wide Web and FTP [ 13 ] as data files containing the Chebyshev coefficients, along with source code to recover ...

  6. Lunar day - Wikipedia

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    A full lunar day observed from the Earth, where orbital libration causes the apparent wobble. A lunar day is the time it takes for Earth's Moon to complete on its axis one synodic rotation, meaning with respect to the Sun. Informally, a lunar day and a lunar night is each approx. 14 Earth days.

  7. Solar rotation - Wikipedia

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    At the equator, the solar rotation period is 24.47 days. This is called the sidereal rotation period, and should not be confused with the synodic rotation period of 26.24 days, which is the time for a fixed feature on the Sun to rotate to the same apparent position as viewed from Earth (the Earth's orbital rotation is in the same direction as the Sun's rotation).

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