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Re:Planet: Imaging the entire Earth every day by mrtnmcc on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:12AM (#20693107)
The orbital velocity and the ground track velocity only differ by about 6.6% for their 450km orbit, so it's not a big difference. But because they have a relatively circular orbit, you can use the formula sqrt(G*M/R) which gives 7.639km/sec -- so it looks like they are referring to true orbital velocity.
Re:Planet: Imaging the entire Earth every day by os7borne on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:22AM (#20693153)
This is helpful, thanks!