“Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery Industry

Re:“Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery ... by m2fkxy on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:59PM (#34210803)

SAR typically are in sun-synchronous orbits too, but mostly for power management reasons. difference is, of course, that they do not need to have their ascending node in daylight.

the only SAR constellations I know aren't in SSO are Israeli (due to launch geometry constraints) and NRO's birds (LACROS/ONYX/TOPAZ, whatever their names are) [1]. some of them have exotic retrograde orbits [2].

[1] see e.g. https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/onyx.htm

[2] see e.g. https://spaceflight101.com/delta-iv-nrol-47/nrol-47/

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Re:“Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery ... by campchase on Sunday January 01, 2023 @09:49PM (#34213675)

Best comment in the thread, I knew about Onyx but nothing more than the Wikipedia page (hardly anything)

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