Sun Synchronous Orbit

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    “The angels were all singing out of tune,
    And hoarse with having little else to do,
    Excepting to wind up the sun and moon
    Or curb a runaway young star or two.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    ““To my thinking” boomed the Professor, begging the question as usual, “the greatest triumph of the human mind was the calculation of Neptune from the observed vagaries of the orbit of Uranus.”
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    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)