revolution per day
Angular speedexact by definition
The revolution per day is 2π/86400 rad/s, about 7.272 × 10⁻⁵ rad/s. It is the natural unit for orbital and planetary rotation: a satellite in low Earth orbit completes roughly 15 revolutions per day, and that figure is the mean motion field in a two-line element set.
Watch out: Mean motion in a TLE is revolutions per solar day of 86,400 s, which is what this unit uses. Earth's own rotation, by contrast, is one revolution per sidereal day of 86,164 s, so a geostationary satellite's mean motion is 1.0027 rev/day rather than exactly 1.
| 1 | 0.000072722052 |
One revolution per day in every angular speed unit
| 15 | degree per hour (°/h) | |
| 1 | revolution per day (rev/d)this unit | |
| 0.25 | degree per minute (°/min) | |
| 0.0727221 | milliradian per second (mrad/s) | |
| 0.0416667 | revolution per hour (rev/h) | |
| 0.00436332 | radian per minute (rad/min) | |
| 0.00416667 | degree per second (°/s) | |
| 0.000694444 | revolution per minute (rpm) | |
| 0.0000727221 | radian per second (rad/s) | |
| 0.0000115741 | revolution per second (rev/s) | |
| 6.94444e-07 | thousand revolutions per minute (krpm) |
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