Communication - Transmission Window
View of the satellite from the probe’s perspective:
The velocity and period of the satellite about the planet is:
The number of seconds spent in a sector on one degree:
In terms of how this relates
to the probe, we
have the identity:
Every degree measured from the center of the planet is 1.482 degrees measured form the probe’s perspective. The total time in seconds per degree traveled by the from the perspective of the probe is:
