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Orbital motion is a red herring

The orbit is known and it is straightforward to compensate for it during an exposure by spinning-up the gyros or rate wheels to make the spacecraft "nod", as was demonstrated by MGS on Mars in getting 50% higher-than-nominal resolution along-track by such a manouvre

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