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by evofxdwg
Sun Feb 21, 2010 4:40 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Geostationary Highway (2010 Feb 20)
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Re: APOD: Geostationary Highway (2010 Feb 20)

Fascinating! I never even thought about the diff in geostationary and geosync. But now the following is hurting my head: The movie appears to have 3 main orbital planes (along with some apparently less used orbits). Based on discussion above, two of them are geosynchronus but not geostationary. If t...