Ground-track shift / rev

Earth-rotation longitude shift per orbit and revs/day (no J2).

SIDUS educational calculator. Category satellite. Tags: earth-observation, geo, operations, satellite. Pure SI. Not flight software.

Formula

ΔL ≈ −ω_E T per rev

Ground-track longitude shift

Primary sources

How do AI agents use this tool?

Read /llms.txt or call https://sidus.tools/api/mcp. Open the interactive page for live SI inputs.

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