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A satellite 22,000 miles up can hover over one spot as Earth turns

Weather forecasters tracking hurricanes across the Western Hemisphere depend on satellites that never drift from their ...
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Know Your Orbits: Where We Keep Our Most Important Stuff in Space

Artistic impression of European Data Relay Satellite (EDRS) system (not to scale). These satellites work in GEO and relay data to and from non-GEO satellites, spacecraft, and stations that aren’t ...
Ars Technica

Three’s a party: US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO

The world’s leading space powers desperately want to know what the others are up to high above the equator. For more than a decade, the US military has operated a fleet of “inspector” satellites ...
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DARPA builds robotic satellite mechanic for missions 22,000 miles above Earth

DARPA is preparing to test one of the most ambitious orbital servicing missions ever attempted: a robotic spacecraft capable of repairing and upgrading satellites located 22,236 miles above Earth. The ...
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Falcon Heavy sends Jupiter-3 broadband giant toward geostationary orbit

TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX launched EchoStar’s more than nine metric ton Jupiter-3 spacecraft July 28 and successfully dropped off the world’s heaviest commercial communications satellite in geosynchronous ...