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In the analogue days why were most sats at western positions?
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<blockquote data-quote="norm360" data-source="post: 811606" data-attributes="member: 389688"><p>-http://www.selkirkshire.demon.co.uk/analoguesat/dbsfreqs.html</p><p></p><p>If you look at this table most of the orbital positons were in the western skies, Marco Polo being at 31w (the first UK satellite). Why was this? Why did they since change to eastern positions?</p><p></p><p>I thought the optimum position for any satellite relative to a country would be at the highest part of the southern sky. So the UK for example would be 5w to 1E.</p><p></p><p>And what dictated Sky moving to the 28.2e position, is there a technical reason for this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="norm360, post: 811606, member: 389688"] -http://www.selkirkshire.demon.co.uk/analoguesat/dbsfreqs.html If you look at this table most of the orbital positons were in the western skies, Marco Polo being at 31w (the first UK satellite). Why was this? Why did they since change to eastern positions? I thought the optimum position for any satellite relative to a country would be at the highest part of the southern sky. So the UK for example would be 5w to 1E. And what dictated Sky moving to the 28.2e position, is there a technical reason for this? [/QUOTE]
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