Sidereal time is of no interest for civil timekeeping but is important in astronautics for both attitude determination and control and astrodynamics, where the orientation of a spacecraft against the stars is considered. For example, it is the sidereal day that must be used to compute the period for a geosynchronous satellite orbit.
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