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Old Jul 26, 2014 | 3:39 am
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Originally Posted by Chopstyx
Much more damning however is that the Burst Offset frequency chart shows a frequency increase as MH370 flew towards the Southern Arc, yet increased offset frequency asserts a flight towards the satellite, not away from it.
I thought there were two possible explantions for that (but haven't dug down to see where the consensus is on them - if you know please point to it):
  1. The BOF is a combination of the satellite orbit perturbation (since it is not truly geostationary) and the aircraft velocity. So the satellite could be moving towards the aircraft faster than the aircraft is moving away from it at the points you reference.
  2. The graph is for some reason inverting the offsets, and should be upside down.

Generally you raise some interesting points, so not trying to argue that you are wrong as such - just trying to bottom out a few things.
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