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Bone008 / orbiteye

Interactive visualization of satellite orbits in historical context for amateurs
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212 satellites have an empty orbit classification #70

Open Bone008 opened 2 years ago

Bone008 commented 2 years ago

Example: 2000-046B belonging to Egypt

It has TLEs though and should be tagged as GEO I believe, so it shows up without a proper color.

sahilshahpatel commented 2 years ago

Hmm so these are all satellites which fall outside of the range I made for GEO but are not elliptical either. My limit was an orbital period > 1462 minutes. The one you highlighted has a period of 1468.72 minutes = 24.47 hours. This is starting to get outside of "geosynchronous" range, but we don't have a term for this.

Just being extra lenient with the terminology isn't helpful either because there are some like 2010-006B with a period of about 27.6 hours which is just definitely further than GEO.

There is probably a term like "High Earth Orbit" or something for this, but I'll have to look into it.