This article analyzes the status change in the attitude control system when faults appear based on one polar orbit satellite, and provides a method to decide faulty component.

Israel's first 24-hour, all-weather, high-resolution radar satellite, dubbed TechSAR, was inserted into orbit Jan. 21 by an Indian Polar satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).

In most cases, the satellite will rise in the west, cross the observer's meridian, and set in the east, although satellites in a polar orbit can rise or set in any part of the sky!