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Old 2nd Jun 2014, 20:10
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Slide 47 shows the ground track of the satellite. It's a teardrop shape rather than a figure 8, due to the very slight eccentricity of the orbit.
The teardrop shape comes from a longitude scale ~30 times larger than the latitude one.
The 8 shape is visible from a "lateral" view (exchanging longitude coordinates for altitude ones).
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