Talk:Sun-synchronous orbit

message: When you write about science for the general public you have a responsibility to communicate in a way that the average non-scientist lay person can understand. This is also Wikipedia policy--
Once the public service mission of the article is satistied, one may also then include highly technical language in parallel to the non-technical writing. But only after the plain English requirements are met, unless a lay translation is virtually impossible.
This is good practice anyway for people in the science fields, because if you want your own work to be funded, you had better know how to communicate the key aspects of what you are doing in plain English, free of self-absorbed techno-babble. Otherwise you might eventually lose public support and funding for your work. Plus it's just plain inconsiderate to write a science article on a public-service platform that can not be understood by the general public. 64.134.125.77 (talk) 08:31, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The polar orbits page says "meaning that each successive orbital pass occurs at the same local time of day." If this is accurate, this should be the first sentence, or at least substitute it for the "In other words" instead of the oh-so-clarifying "precesses once a year". I'd change it, but I'm not positive that it is accurate.
--98.173.216.165 (talk) 19:42, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: ARTICLE OPENING IS FULL OF SELF-ABSORBED TECHNOSPEAK

message: Yes indeed why would Heliosynchronous be wrong to say? It has the exact same meaning...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.254.5.198 (talk) 19:16, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: See Heliosynchronous orbit  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.199.115.206 (talk) 12:35, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it is a made-up term, see the discussion on the Talk Page at the Talk:Heliosynchronous orbit.  Cheers.  N2e (talk) 14:28, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heliosynchronous orbit 

message: The equation for J2 is misleading at best.  J2 is not defined with respect to the Earth's rotation rate, and the precession rate does not depend directly on this rate.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Optiker (talk • contribs) 10:59, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  dynamical form factor 

message: There is no source in the article for the claim that Heliosynchronous orbit is the same thing as Sun-synchronous orbit.  I have tagged the claim as needing a citation.  If one is not forthcoming, I will remove the claim shortly.
In the meantime, if you want to see why there is likely no claim, and that Heliosynchronous orbit is an invented term, possibly inadvertantly through Wikipedia, see the discussion underway at Talk:Heliosynchronous orbit.  Cheers.  N2e (talk) 14:32, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Heliosynchronous orbit" as an equivalent term for Sun-synchronous orbit is unsourced 

message: I think that the mean motion of the Earth about the Sun is 360° per sidereal year, not tropical year. Sidereal year is the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun once with respect to the fixed stars. — Petr Matas 09:09, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious 

message: It appears that the image uses the wrong angle for DeltaOmegaSSO.
From what I can tell, to keep the constant angle, the orbit needs to move in a counter-clockwise direction, not the clockwise direction shown.
For example, between 21/06 and 23/09, there should be a period where the green and red orbits (where I assume the red orbit is taken as a point on Earth's surface or the like) overlap.
Using the angle shown at 23/09, that requires the angle to be larger then (between 21/06 and 23/09) than it is at 23/09.
Could someone please confirm and possibly fix the image?Black.jeff (talk) 21:25, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Another potential issue: the image caption ends with this statement: The green arrow should be counter-clockwise as it should match the counter-clockwise white arrow. Does this mean that there's an error in the image—that the direction of the green arrow should be reversed? Phlar (talk) 22:22, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 20:09, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issues with image. 

message: What are technical details for the noon/midnight orbit and the dawn/dusk orbit? John W. Nicholson (talk) 15:41, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technical details for Special cases 

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message: One of the formula in the Technical details section is broken with a weird parsing error. this edit seems to be the culprit but I can't figure out why or how to fix it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Calimo (talk • contribs) 13:01, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you think is broken? If I look at the page I see nothing obviously wrong William M. Connolley (talk) 13:36, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken formula 

message: What is the relative 'cost' or effort needed to reach the higher SS orbits compared to the lower ones ? - Rod57 (talk) 05:21, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  How hard are these orbits to reach 

message: The part on “Technical details” is interesting but it would be better to add citations to papers (or books) where one can find the various formulas presented in this section.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hub2307 (talk • contribs) 08:41, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technical details