Molniya orbit | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-22

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00:01:34 1 History
00:04:41 2 Uses
00:06:22 2.1 Southern hemisphere proposals
00:06:59 2.2 Molniya constellations
00:08:53 2.3 Diagrams
00:09:02 3 Properties
00:09:39 3.1 Argument of perigee
00:10:04 3.2 Orbital inclination
00:12:07 3.3 Orbital period
00:13:21 3.4 Eccentricity
00:14:06 3.5 Semi-major axis
00:14:41 4 Modelling
00:15:08 5 See also



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A Molniya orbit (Russian: Молния, IPA: [ˈmolnʲɪjə] (listen), "Lightning") is a type of satellite orbit designed to provide communications and remote sensing coverage over high latitudes. It is a highly elliptical orbit with an inclination of 63.4 degrees, an argument of perigee of 270 degrees, and an orbital period of approximately half a sidereal day. The name comes from the Molniya satellites, a series of Soviet/Russian  civilian and military communications satellites which have used this type of orbit since the mid-1960s.
The Molniya orbit has a long dwell time over the hemisphere of interest, while moving very quickly over the other. In practice, this places it over either Russia or the northern United States for the majority of its orbit, providing a high angle of view to communications and monitoring satellites covering these high-latitude areas. Geostationary orbits, which are necessarily inclined over the equator, can only view these regions from a low angle, hampering performance. In practice, a satellite in a Molniya orbit serves the same purpose for high latitudes as a geostationary satellite does for equatorial regions, except that multiple satellites are required for continuous coverage.Satellites placed in Molniya orbits have been used for television broadcasting, telecommunications, military communications, relaying, weather monitoring, early-warning systems and some classified purposes.