2.3 Kepler's Three Laws
This video is part of the Satellite Communications Course. We cover the second part related to Orbital Mechanics. Specifically we cover:
Reference Coordinate Axes
Kepler's First Law: Orbit is an ellipse with the larger body (earth) at one focus
Kepler's Second Law: The satellite sweeps out equal arcs (area) in equal time (NOTE: for an ellipse, this means that the orbital velocity varies around the orbit)
Kepler's Third Law: The square of the period of revolution equals a CONSTANT times the THIRD POWER of SEMI-MAJOR AXIS of the ellipse
Conditions for Geostationarity
Example: The Geostationary Orbit
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