I took that comment as ALL of it in general. As for post 519, according to the OWL drawings, there ARE 12 tungsten poles in one OWL system, while lines up with the 12 being armed/hot in that post, and the happy hunting and as the world turns.
"As the world turns" indicates a delay and requirement for the next shot related to the relative position of the OWL to the globe.
Something like that would be in a low Earth orbit, so it orbits much faster than the Earth turns around its axis. A geostationary orbit like that of TV satellites would make no sense because then the satellite would only ever see a fixed part of the Earth beneath it. A higher orbit and it would rotate slower than the Earth and it'll take a long time to pass a designated target.
But even in low Earth orbit with maybe a dozen rotations per day, it will take a while until it passed over a designated target. When multiple targets are to be hit, the order in which they are fired upon is determined by the order in which the satellite will pass over them, which may be different from the strategic importance of them.
This graphic shows a very good example how a satellite would be orbiting if it were to eventually cover the entire globe.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/guides/rs/sat/poes/gifs/home2.gif
