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greg elkin ([personal profile] beermat) wrote 2003-10-21 07:21 am (UTC)

do geosynchronous satellites have to keep generating bits of thrust to keep their speed up & stay in the 36000Km orbit? Or once plonked there with the right initial nudge, do they stay there forever?
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