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We successfully launched our first fully dedicated rideshare mission, SSO-A SmallSat Express, in December 2018 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 out of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
An earth satellite orbit in which the orbital plane is near polar and the altitude is such that satellite passes over all places on earth having same latitude twice in each orbit at the same local suntime. This orbit lies at a altitude between 700 to 800 Km above the Earth. Please fill out this field. Next Forgot your SSO User ID? Sign Up Now! Forgot your Password? SSO FAQs Modify Your Account © General Electric Company. A sun-synchronous orbit (SSO, and also called a heliosynchronous orbit) is a geocentric orbit that combines altitude and inclination in such a way that the satellite passes over any given point of the planet's surface at the same local solar time. A sun-synchronous orbit during different seasons. The set of available orbit types is dependent upon the central body about which the orbit will be created. For example, sun synchronous orbit types are only available when the central body is in direct orbit about the Sun (planets, yes; moons of planets, no.). Molniya orbits are.
Not only did it represent Spaceflight’s first purchase of an entire Falcon 9 to accommodate the growing number of customers seeking affordable rideshare options to launch their spacecraft into orbit, it was also an historic launch:
SSO-A: the largest single rideshare mission from a US-based launch vehicle to date.
Spaceflight contracted with 64 spacecraft from 34 different organizations for the mission to a Sun-Synchronous Low Earth Orbit. It included 15 microsats and 49 cubesats from both commercial and government entities, of which more than 25 were from international organizations from 17 countries, including United States, Australia, Italy, Netherlands, Finland, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, UK, Germany, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Poland, Canada, Brazil, and India.
Sun Synchronous Orbit Calculator
Customers On Board
Sun Synchronous Orbit
A few notable customers included University of North Carolina-Wilmington, NovaWurks, Ghalam, Helios Wire / Sirion Global, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB), Astrocast, Honeywell Aerospace, HawkEye 360, Nevada Museum of Art, Fleet Space Technologies, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Audacy, Capella Space Corporation, University of Colorado Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, and many others. Read their stories here.
Sso Orbit Animation
Three Classes of Orbit
High Earth Orbit
When a satellite reaches exactly 42,164 kilometers from the center of the Earth (about 36,000 kilometers from Earth’s surface), it enters a sort of “sweet spot” in which its orbit matches Earth’s rotation. Because the satellite orbits at the same speed that the Earth is turning, the satellite seems to stay in place over a single longitude, though it may drift north to south. This special, high Earth orbit is called geosynchronous.
A satellite in a circular geosynchronous orbit directly over the equator (eccentricity and inclination at zero) will have a geostationary orbit that does not move at all relative to the ground. It is always directly over the same place on the Earth’s surface.
Leo Sso Orbit
A geostationary orbit is extremely valuable for weather monitoring because satellites in this orbit provide a constant view of the same surface area. When you log into your favorite weather web site and look at the satellite view of your hometown, the image you are seeing comes from a satellite in geostationary orbit. Every few minutes, geostationary satellites like the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) satellites send information about clouds, water vapor, and wind, and this near-constant stream of information serves as the basis for most weather monitoring and forecasting.