A particular orbit known as Molniya orbit is highly elliptic with the half major and half minor axis being about 46,000 km and 6,800 km respectively.The inclination of the orbit is 63.4 degress . spacecrafts in Molniya orbit remain in the northern hemisphere for as much as 11 hours in an orbit which is having a time period of 12 hours.
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