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A plot of an example computed coverage area for an areosynchronous satellite. The constraint used in this example is that the satellite must appear 10 degrees above the horizon in order to maintain coverage. The coverage zone in this image is centered...
 
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== Summary ==
== Summary ==
A plot of an example computed coverage area for an areosynchronous satellite. The constraint used in this example is that the satellite must appear 10 degrees above the horizon in order to maintain coverage.
A plot of example coverage areas for satellites in stationary orbit above Mars. The four areas are the approximate coverage zones for satellites in the two stable equilibrium points (yellow) and the two unstable points (cyan).


The coverage zone in this image is centered on the equator at 180 degrees latitude.
Plotted with Leaflet using tiles from [https://github.com/openplanetary/opm/wiki/OPM-Basemaps OpenPlanetaryMap]


Plotted with Leaflet and Mapbox by Pete Brandt, source code available at https://github.com/pbrandt1/flight-dynamics-tutorials
== Licensing ==
== Licensing ==
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{{CC-by-sa-4.0}}

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Summary

A plot of example coverage areas for satellites in stationary orbit above Mars. The four areas are the approximate coverage zones for satellites in the two stable equilibrium points (yellow) and the two unstable points (cyan).

Plotted with Leaflet using tiles from OpenPlanetaryMap

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04:41, 30 August 2018Thumbnail for version as of 04:41, 30 August 2018515 × 399 (177 KB)Pb (talk | contribs)A plot of an example computed coverage area for an areosynchronous satellite. The constraint used in this example is that the satellite must appear 10 degrees above the horizon in order to maintain coverage. The coverage zone in this image is centered...

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