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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Giorgio Perrotta, Rome, IT;
Assignee:
Alenia Spazio SpA, L'Aquila, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G / ; H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2441 / ; 379 60 ; 455 121 ; 455 132 ; 342352 ;
Abstract
A satellite telecommunications and remote sensing system including a plurality of satellites arranged above the Earth in short-period elliptical sun-synchronous orbits which have the following Keplerian parameters: an orbit inclination of 116.6.degree. on an equatorial plane of the Earth, a daily rotation of a nodal line of 0.9863.degree., an orbital period selected such that N orbital periods fit into M sidereal days, any desired argument of perigee and any desired value of the right ascension of the ascending node.