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How fast does a sun sychronous orbit need to go to stay in orbit?
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∙ 11y ago
If you wanted to put a device in an orbit that would revolve around the sun
in the same length of time the sun itself rotates at its equator, your device
would have to orbit the sun in 24.5 days.
The 'period' of an orbiting body depends only on its distance from the central
body. The closer to the sun a planet is, the shorter its 'year' is.
Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, completes one orbital revolution every
88 Earth days.
In order to complete an orbital revolution every 24.5 days, your device would
need to be in an orbit that's only about 43% the size of Mercury's orbit.
It would travel in that orbit at the blazing speed of a little over 73 kilometers per second !
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