The government of Ecuador has contracted your company to place a communications satellite in orbit over the city of Quito to prepare for a potential earthquake threat in the region. You are the aerospace engineer tasked to design the orbit to fulfill the mission requirements.
1. The University of New Brunswick in Canada won a grant from the Department of the Environment to study the thinning of the northern polar ice cap in an effort to quantify global warming. The imaging system to monitor the ice thickness will be carried on the Polar Sheet satellite to be launched this spring. Design the orbit of a satellite to maximize oversight of this region.
Design a satellite to monitor the rain forest trees, it uses an imaging system to see how many trees are getting cut to be used for houses, furniture ect