Circular orbit above the Earth's equator and following the direction of the Earth's rotation.
1This is not exactly off-the-shelf capacity, a rocket large enough to carry something into geostationary orbit.
2Grace says we still have a couple of rocks in geostationary orbit left with four of our ships.
3Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, considered the father of geostationary orbit, now has a satellite named after him.
4That far south, the Inmarsat satellite system, positioned in geostationary orbit over the equator, hangs just 15 degrees above the horizon.
5Arthur C. Clarke, better known perhaps, for his popular science fiction, is credited with being the first to suggest a geostationary orbit.
6The mission to geostationary orbit is slated to lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center this weekend atop a brand new booster.
7There are more than 1,200 large objects in geostationary orbit, and less than a third are functioning.
8It was a single vast web in geostationary orbit about the planet, and Kern's metal home was just one pinpoint within its myriad complexity.
9If we drop about 22,000 miles from geostationary orbit we find a mix of satellites in Polar LEO orbits.
10Two of these are for large telecommunications satellites that must be thrown up into a geostationary orbit some 36,000km above the Earth.
11They were hovering about thirty thousand kilometers away in geostationary orbits.
12Some of them are relatively low flying in Low Earth Orbit, or LEO, and some are much higher in a Geostationary Orbit, or GEO.
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