Before communications satellites, such signals had to be relayed via earth ... The idea of geosynchronous satellites is to find an orbit over the equator in which the satellite revolves around the ...
You know L1 and L2 and polar and MEO. L3 and L4 and halo and GEO. But do you recall, the most famous orbit of all?
The Intelsat 33e satellite provided broadband communication from a point some 35,000km above the Indian Ocean, in a ...
It will be manoeuvred to a position 36,000km above the equator ... type of satellite, had it been operational earlier this month, could have reacted quickly to provide emergency communications ...