it is made to follow an elliptical orbit to make it spend its time more in the visible sky.
An ellipse.
A satellite is a body in orbit around another lager body. A probe is a machine sent to a specific place or specific course in space. Comment: That doesn't seem to answer the question. The curved path that a satellite follows is either a circle or an ellipse
The path is called an orbit, and it's shaped like an ellipse.
an orbit (usually an ellipse)
It means that it moves around the planet, along a path (orbit) that has the shape of an ellipse.
It means that it moves around the planet, along a path (orbit) that has the shape of an ellipse.
an ellipse. the sinewave path on flat maps is because most satellite orbits are inclined/tilted with respect to the earth's axis. so the satellite moves north/south as well as around the earth.
The path is called an "orbit", and it has the shape of an ellipse, the Sun being at one focus of the ellipse.
Ellipse is actually correct
The scientific name for the path of a planet around the sun is an orbit. The shape of this path can be an ellipse, with the sun located at one of the foci of the ellipse.
The path of the Earth's orbit is an ellipse. The Sun is positioned at one of the two foci of the ellipse.
The Earth moves in a path which is in the shape of an ellipse. This is called an "elliptical orbit". Our path is very close to being a circle, but the distance from the Sun varies slightly because the path is actually an ellipse.