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geosynchronous orbit

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geosynchronous orbit [‚jē·ō¦siŋ·krə·nəs ′ȯr·bət]
(aerospace engineering)
A satellite orbit that has a period of one sidereal day (23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds). Abbreviated GEO.


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Long Beach-based Sea Launch, which is developing a mobile, sea-platform for the launch of rockets, has successfully delivered a communications satellite to geosynchronous orbit.
Governor Jerry Brown of California no longer wants us to lower our expectations but to raise them; into geosynchronous orbit, in fact.
He is equally recognized in global scientific and engineering circles as the genius who first proposed communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
 
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