Near equatorial orbit

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A near equatorial orbit is an orbit that lies close to the equatorial plane of the object orbited. This orbit allows for rapid revisit times (for a single orbiting spacecraft) of near equatorial ground sites.

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Types

General	Box · Capture · Circular · Elliptical / Highly elliptical · Escape · Graveyard · Hyperbolic trajectory · Inclined / Non-inclined · Osculating · Parabolic trajectory · Parking · Synchronous (semi · sub)

Geocentric	Geosynchronous · Geostationary · Sun-synchronous · Low Earth · Medium Earth · Molniya · Near-equatorial · Orbit of the Moon · Polar · Tundra

Other	Areosynchronous · Areostationary · Halo · Lissajous · Lunar · Heliocentric · Heliosynchronous

Parameters

Classical					Other
$i\,\!$	Inclination	$\omega\,\!$	Argument of periapsis		$\nu\,$	True anomaly	$L\,$	Mean longitude
$\Omega\,\!$	Longitude of the ascending node	$a\,\!$	Semi-major axis		$b\,$	Semi-minor axis	$l\,$	True longitude
$e\,\!$	Eccentricity	$M_o\,\!$	Mean anomaly at epoch		$\epsilon\,$	Linear eccentricity	$T\,$	Orbital period
					$E\,$	Eccentric anomaly

Maneuvers

Bi-elliptic transfer · Geostationary transfer · Gravity assist · Hohmann transfer · Inclination change · Phasing · Rendezvous · Transposition, docking, and extraction

Other orbital mechanics topics

Apsis · Celestial coordinate system · Delta-v budget · Epoch · Ephemeris · Equatorial coordinate system · Gravity turn · Ground track · Interplanetary Transport Network · Kepler's laws of planetary motion · Lagrangian point · Low energy transfers · n-body problem · Oberth effect · Orbit equation · Orbital state vectors · Perturbation · Retrograde and direct motion · Specific orbital energy · Specific relative angular momentum

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