ADJECTIVE
- of or having an orbit with a fixed period of 24 hours (although the position in the orbit may not be fixed with respect to the earth)
How To Use geosynchronous In A Sentence
- What was needed was an advanced, geosynchronous follow-on system to Rhyolite.
- While HAPs are unproven, Internet traffic is traveling over geosynchronous satellite links today.
- The satellite is to be injected into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit about 17 minutes after the lift-off.
- There, the rockets will link up, creating an 80-ton spacecraft that will ascend to 22,000 miles and lock into geosynchronous orbit.
- At 20 percent efficiency, solar photovoltaic cells in geosynchronous orbit can deliver 270 watts of electric power per square meter continuously.
- Up to a dozen geosynchronous satellites go out of service every year, and there are now several hundred derelicts in the disposal orbit.
- For early-warning purposes, scientists look to observations from geosynchronous weather satellites, each of which constantly monitors an entire hemisphere and beams data to Earth every 30 minutes or so.
- These notional missions include observatories designed to operate in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), at Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO), and at Earth-Sun Lagrangian points L1 and L2. New Uses for Constellation Systems? - NASA Watch
- The key to this concept was the placement of space stations in geosynchronous Earth orbit, a location 35,786 kilometers above Earth.
- In general, geosynchronous satellites are designed to broadcast a wide beam to ensure the wide area coverage.
