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/dʒˌiːəʊstˈeɪʃənəɹi/
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ADJECTIVE
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of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth
a geostationary satellite
How To Use geostationary In A Sentence
- He also popularised the idea of geostationary communications satellites in the 1940s, which has led to the geostationary orbit also being dubbed the 'Clarke Orbit'. Archive 2008-06-01
- a geostationary satellite
- During the past year, we have included more than two dozen additional commercial geostationary communications satellites that have been ordered or planned by companies such as Intelsat and SES Global. SpaceRef Top Stories
- The modified signals are then retransmitted via geostationary satellites to users' receivers.
- Egnos consists of three geostationary satellites and a network of ground stations for the transmission of a signal containing information on the reliability and accuracy of the positioning.
- Finally uplink stations send the signal to three geostationary satellites that relay it back for reception by end-users on the ground.
- He states that geostationary satellites must violate Kepler's first law, because they must have circular orbits when the first law demands that orbits be ellipses.
- A geostationary orbit is a circular orbit in the equatorial plane, any point on which revolves about the Earth in the same direction and with the same period as the Earth's rotation.
- The signals are then beamed back into space, and broadcast by three civilian geostationary satellites.
- In 1964 the first Trisanku (!), Syncom, with the generic scientific name geostationary satellite/geosynchronous satellite was placed above a fixed longitude on the equator, and thereby a myth became a reality. MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F (Part II)