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Meanings of geostationary orbit in English

Russian
геостационар
Portuguese
órbita geoestacionária
Spanish
geo
Catalan
òrbita geostacionària
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Circular orbit above the Earth's equator and following the direction of the Earth's rotation.

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