Effectiveness of orbital railguns on ground or air-based targets?

For space-based warfare, would an orbiting satellite which was equipped with a railgun cannon be effective against a ground-based fort, or even an aeroplane, or another type of air transport? This is, of course with full data on the planet's surface, and the planet is reasonably earth-like.

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