Rocket trajectory to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO, highly elliptical) and low Earth orbit (LEO) in the Earth-Centered Earth-Fixed frame (IAU_EARTH), which is not an inertial frame hence why it appears that the universe is rotating and the geostationary transfer orbit has a figure 8 shape
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