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Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) Launches

Highly Elliptical Orbits (HEO) feature extreme eccentricity, spending most of each orbit period over a specific hemisphere. Military early-warning systems, signals intelligence, and Molniya-type communications satellites use HEO to provide extended coverage at high latitudes.

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