If the orbit of a satellite is defined as "906 by 825 km" what does it mean?
Do those two values represent the Perigee and Apogee or the semi-major and semi-minor axis? Im am trying to find the dimensions of the Interkosmos 22's orbit. The link to the satellite's details can be found here: https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/interkosmos-22.htm
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Ronald 7 say: Smallest Altitude and Largest Alttitude of course
What it means for Intercosmos 82 is 625 km by 906 km at angle 87 degrees
Thank you for the link
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nineteenthly say: Perigee and apogee. Otherwise the orbit would be smaller than this planet.
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ngc7331 say: Perigee and Apogee
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tham153 say: 906 would be apogee, 825 the perigee. The semi-major an semi-minor axes would need to be much larger, to include Earth's radius
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Jeffrey K say: Those numbers are its minimum and maximum altitude in its elliptical orbit. Add the earth's radius to each number to get its perigee and apogee relative to the center of the earth.
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Morningfox say: That satellite was going around the Earth. If 825 km x 906 km was the axes, then it would be in the core of the Earth. I really don't think that there are any satellites there.

space-track.org (account needed) says it is still up, at 878 x 784 km, period 101.53 minutes, inclination 81.22 degrees.
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PhotonX say: The axes.
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Captain Matticus, LandPiratesInc say: That's what I'd think.
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