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Rocket launches from a New Zealand space port on a direct easterly course and achieves orbital height and speed. Is this what it looks like? A satellite in this orbit will have a shorter orbital period than say the same one launched from Cape Kennedy right, due to orbiting around a larger portion of the Earth (the equatorial bulge)

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