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To: discostu

They don’t have “fixed” orbits because they have fuel to adjust orbits. Only just so much fuel, so their delta-vee is limited. Such an orbital change also has to be done in advance. It can’t be an abrupt change, again a finite amount of delta-vee is carried.
Any adversary with sufficient National Technical Means would be tracking the satellite and notice the orbital change.


59 posted on 03/31/2021 2:31:56 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (Antifa=BLM=RevCom=CPUSA = CCP=Democratic Party )
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To: Fred Hayek

Yeah, they have to swing it carefully and there’s a limited window when that change is useful. But they can. And do.


61 posted on 03/31/2021 2:45:12 PM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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