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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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We use satellites in this orbit to communicate with very high latitude places like Antarctica and Northern Greenland.
Two hundred satellites have succesfully been placed into orbit with the help of Saab Ericsson Space separation systems.
All DIRECTV satellites are located in geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles above the earth.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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Orbits are ellipses, and the body being orbited (the Moon and most satellites orbit the Earth; planets and interplanetary satellites orbit the Sun) is at one of the foci.
The USA was preparing to send satellites to the orbits of Venus and Mars, and I suggested that an instrument be included on those spacecraft to measure the properties of the cosmic radiation.
Satellites so low that they orbit in fewer than 225 minutes are far more susceptible to the earth's atmosphere and earth gravitational anomalies than any other source of disturbance.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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Launch commercial satellites to orbit from a platform at sea.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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Satellites in a Geostationary or Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit are high above the Earth.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Set of orbit parameters sent by GPS satellites that allows calculation of approximate GPS satellite positions and velocities.
Hundreds of satellites are included with the software, and information is provided to explain how to obtain future data sets as new satellites are launched and older orbits decay.
GPS is one of the best tracking types for Precise Orbit Determination of Low Earth Orbit satellites because it combines high accuracy with unsurpassed observability.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Thus satellites boosted to higher disposal orbits will eventually endanger operational satellites.
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