Near-equatorial orbit

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.

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

Geocentric	Geosynchronous Geostationary Sun-synchronous Low Earth Medium Earth High Earth Molniya Near-equatorial Orbit of the Moon Polar Tundra Two-line elements

About other points	Areosynchronous Areostationary Halo Lissajous Lunar Heliocentric Heliosynchronous

Parameters

Shape/Size	$e\,\!$ Eccentricity $a\,\!$ Semi-major axis $b\,\!$ Semi-minor axis $Q,q\,\!$ Apsides

Orientation	$i\,\!$ Inclination $\Omega\,\!$ Longitude of the ascending node $\omega\,\!$ Argument of periapsis $\varpi\,\!$ Longitude of the periapsis

Position	$M\,\!$ Mean anomaly $\nu\,\!$ True anomaly $E\,\!$ Eccentric anomaly $L\,\!$ Mean longitude $l\,\!$ True longitude

Variation	$T\,\!$ Orbital period $n\,\!$ Mean motion $v\,\!$ Orbital speed $t_0\,\!$ Epoch

Maneuvers

Collision avoidance (spacecraft) Delta-v Delta-v budget Bi-elliptic transfer Geostationary transfer Gravity assist Gravity turn Hohmann transfer Low energy transfer Oberth effect Inclination change Phasing Rocket equation Rendezvous Transposition, docking, and extraction

Other orbital mechanics topics

Celestial coordinate system Characteristic energy Ephemeris Equatorial coordinate system Ground track Hill sphere Interplanetary Transport Network Kepler's laws of planetary motion Lagrangian point n-body problem Orbit equation Orbital state vectors Perturbation Retrograde motion Specific orbital energy Specific relative angular momentum

List of orbits

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Near-equatorial orbit

See also