• Question: What is the GEO and what is its circular orbit?

    Asked by naomioden106 to Joseph on 15 Nov 2013.
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      Joseph Roche answered on 15 Nov 2013:

      Do you mean Geostationary Earth Orbit? If that’s the GEO you mean then it’s just a way of describing when a satellite is orbiting the Earth in a circular orbit and moving at the same speed as the Earth’s rotation so that it always stays over the same place. It’s 35,786 kilometres above the Earth.

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