greg elkin (
beermat
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2003
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10
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21
02:07 pm
Current Music:
Velvet Acid Christ - Area One
geosynchronous / geostationary
why is apx 36,000Km the orbit for geosynchronous satellites? Isn't
any
orbit (at the right speed) geosynchronous?
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beermat
2003-10-21 11:52 am (UTC)
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it *is* rather cool!
Wish it did a lot more as well - imagine if it linked in a planetarium & the voyager & mariner & other probes and everything we've ever done in space ;)
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beermat
2003-10-21 11:59 am (UTC)
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and time as well,
would be fun to set it to show spacecraft & satellites popping up (and disappearing :( as years go by
Sputnik, all alone...
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Wish it did a lot more as well - imagine if it linked in a planetarium & the voyager & mariner & other probes and everything we've ever done in space ;)
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would be fun to set it to show spacecraft & satellites popping up (and disappearing :( as years go by
Sputnik, all alone...