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Fig. A.1.
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The spherical triangle to obtain the angle β between the orbit and the parallel of latitude ϕ. The angle κ indicates the anomaly of the satellite measured from the ascending node along its orbit. With λ we indicate the difference between the geocentric longitude of the satellite and that of the ascending node.
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