do all satellites orbit the same direction?
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A: Satellites and other spacecraft can orbit with the rotation of the Earth, in the opposite direction of Earth's rotation, or in any other direction! Usually satellites orbit in the direction of Earth's rotation, but there are some satellites that travel in the opposite direction.
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The planets in our solar system never line up in one perfectly straight line like they show in the movies. ... In reality, the planets do not all orbit perfectly in the same plane. Instead, they swing about on different orbits in three dimensional space. For this reason, they will never be perfectly aligned.
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How Do Satellites Orbit Earth? Most satellites are launched into space on rockets. A satellite orbits Earth when its speed is balanced by the pull of Earth's gravity. Without this balance, the satellite would fly in a straight line off into space or fall back to Earth.
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Do ALL satellites have to fly at the same speed so not to leave their orbit? ... No, satellites that orbit at different altitudes have different speeds. Satellites that are further away actually travel slower. The International Space Station has a Low Earth Orbit, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) above the earth's surface.
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A satellite in a polar orbit will pass over the equator at a different longitude on each of its orbits. ... A geosynchronous orbit is an orbit around Earth of a satellite with an orbital period that matches Earth's rotation on its axis, which takes one sidereal day.
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Neptune an Pluto do not “swap places”, but Pluto's elliptical orbit does take it inside Neptune's more circular orbit, during part of its orbit of the Sun. However, planet orbits have swapped in the past according to the NICE model of the early Solar-System.
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In reality, the planets do not all orbit perfectly in the same plane. Instead, they swing about on different orbits in three dimensional space. For this reason, they will never be perfectly aligned. It's like waiting for a swarm of flies circling your head to all line up.
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Under the geocentric model, the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets all orbited Earth. ... First, from anywhere on Earth, the Sun appears to revolve around Earth once per day. While the Moon and the planets have their own motions, they also appear to revolve around Earth about once per day.
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A geosynchronous orbit is an orbit around the Earth, where the object orbits once per day. ... A sun-synchronous orbit is an orbit around the Earth, where the movement of the satellite always looks the same when viewed from the Sun.
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Its rotation direction is prograde, or west to east, which appears counterclockwise when viewed from above the North Pole, and it is common to all the planets in our solar system except Venus and Uranus, according to NASA.
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The moon orbits Earth following a nearly circular path. The same face of the moon always points toward Earth. The moon's orbit is the result of the interaction between the moon's inertia and the gravitational force from Earth.
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Geosynchronous orbits (GEO) – GEO satellites orbit Earth at an altitude greater than 22,223 miles (36,000 kilometers) and their orbital period is the same as Earth's rotational period: 24 hours. Included in this category are geostationary (GSO) satellites, which remain in orbit above a fixed spot on Earth.
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In our animation, it goes around twice in one day. In reality, the satellite may orbit Earth once every hour-and-a-half or so, going around many times per day. An example of satellites in polar orbit are the three POES* satellites.
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Geostationary satellites don't actually orbit the equator, they are in low inclination orbits that cause the satelite to appear to do a figure 8 in the sky above the Earth. Orbiting near the equator allows the satellite to match the speed of the Earth's spin which is the same at the same latitudes.
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Satellites can orbit Earth's equator or go over Earth's North and South Poles . . . or anything in between. They orbit at a low altitude of just a few hundred miles above Earth's surface or thousands of miles out in space. The choice of orbit all depends on the satellite's job.
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Interaction of Earth, Moon, & Sun The moon orbits the earth once per month, and the earth orbits the sun once per year. This happens because all bodies with mass in the universe attract each other. The earth's pull on the moon keeps the moon in orbit, and the sun's pull on the earth keeps the earth in orbit.
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Most scientific satellites and many weather satellites are in a nearly circular, low Earth orbit. The satellite's inclination depends on what the satellite was launched to monitor.