[19th LA Inf]

Only if the Israelis have discovered some new kind of gravity....

I was more or less quoting the Jerusalem Post article, which stated that Ofek 7 orbits over Iran, Iraq and Syria every 90 minutes. I took that to mean that the orbit was set to track the earth's rotation rate, rather than staying in a fixed plane and having the earth rotate beneath it once every 24 hours. Does that make sense? I can certainly see where the Israelis would do it that way if it were possible.

[r9etb]

I took that to mean that the orbit was set to track the earth's rotation rate, rather than staying in a fixed plane and having the earth rotate beneath it once every 24 hours.

No -- that would put the satellite in geosynchronous orbit, well outside range for effective hi-res imagery.

Trust my description of their actual coverage of 6-7 passes per day: I ran the numbers.