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echo: science
to: Roy Witt
from: DAVID WILLIAMS
date: 2008-03-27 17:30:28
subject: here`s one for ya...

-> Wouldn't that depend on the inclination of it's orbit? i.g. in a North, 
-> South, North orbit it would always see the sun. 
  
As far as I recall, the inclination of the ISS's orbit is about 60 
degrees, relative to the equator. This rather high inclination was 
chosen so that Russian rockets could reach it from their cosmodrome 
in Kazakhstan. But it's still nowhere near sufficiently inclined to 
allow the station to be in perpetual sunlight. 
  
                                  dow 
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