Ground track

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Ground trace from a Molnija satellite

Ground track is a term from space travel . It describes the vertical projection of the flight path of a satellite onto the surface of the celestial body it is orbiting - so to speak, the imaginary track that the satellite draws on the ground below.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Maiwald, Dominik Quantius, Benny Rievers: Fundamentals of orbit mechanics . Carl Hanser Verlag, 2019, p. 142 ( limited preview in Google Book search).