How to Use geostationary in a Sentence

geostationary

adjective

• If all this goes well, the ultimate goal is a world-spanning ring of satellites in geostationary orbits.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• In remote parts of the world, like where Wyler was, internet connections often have to come to the ground from geostationary satellites.
  — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2018
• Meanwhile, the second stage appeared to be well on its way to delivering the Koreasat-5A to its geostationary orbit.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2017
• In geostationary orbit, for example, there are only so many slots available for satellites in the ring around the Earth’s equator.
  — Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 19 Mar. 2024
• The booster can lift up to 14 tons to geostationary transfer orbit and is critical to China's exploration plans over the next decade.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2019
• SpaceX is hoping the third time is the charm tonight with its Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket currently fueled up and ready to launch the company’s first geostationary payload.
  — Jason Paur, WIRED, 3 Dec. 2013
• The most expensive satellites (and thus key targets for servicing) fly high above the Earth in geostationary orbits that keep them aligned above a specific point on the planet.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 16 June 2022
• Last week, the Swedish satellite company Ovzon signed a deal for a Falcon Heavy launch as early as late 2020 for a geostationary satellite mission.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2018
• The three-ton satellite will be delivered to a geostationary transfer orbit.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2018
• To get to the moon, they'll be rocketed into geostationary orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and then be propelled into the moon's orbit via a single burn.
  — NBC News, 11 May 2017
• Virgin Orbit’s focus on LEO satellites is at the other end of the scale from the large satellites in geostationary orbit that are launched by vertical rockets.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2023
• Adaptive optics can be used to track and take images of satellites and debris in low-Earth orbit and to improve the tracking of objects in low, medium and geostationary orbits.
  — Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2021
• Several experts Ars spoke to noted that the market for the launch of large satellites to low-Earth and geostationary orbit has remained fairly static.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 May 2018
• The satellite weighs slightly more than six metric tons, which is about half a ton heavier than any Falcon 9 payload bound for geostationary orbit that the company has tried to land before.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2018
• But China has tested missiles apparently capable of getting all the way to geostationary orbit—the altitude where satellites take 24 hours to get round the Earth, and thus seem to stay above the same place all the time.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• The communications satellite that SpaceX's Falcon 9 will loft to geostationary transfer orbit is a beast of a sat, weighing in at over six metric tons.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2017
• And the federal agency will also release images of the eclipse from its other geostationary satellites.
  — Leigh Morgan, AL.com, 17 Aug. 2017
• Those in geostationary orbit are too far from the Earth to deorbit and have to be placed in a special orbit that lies away from common operational orbits, known as the graveyard orbit.
  — Mihir Tripathy, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
• Most communications satellites at the time rested in a geostationary orbit, which matched the Earth’s rotation, fixing each craft in place from the perspective of someone on the ground.
  — Matt Day, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
• No one is talking about putting troops into space but rather how to protect US and allied satellites and ensure peaceful access to geostationary orbit and cislunar space near the Moon.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 June 2018
• And right now, only SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy can deliver those big satellites to geostationary orbits.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2023
• The researchers suggest this is an indication that most of the tracks are left by satellites in geostationary orbits, which are often situated along the equator.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2023
• Once lofted into its transfer orbit by the Ariane 5, Eutelsat 172B will turn on its electric motors and start the slow climb to geostationary orbit over Asia.
  — Peter Sayer, PCWorld, 1 June 2017
• Imagery from geostationary satellites is always used as well.
  — Adam Sobel, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2019
• The geostationary satellites are just that: stationary.
  — Andrew Blum, WIRED, 25 June 2019
• Solar-powered vehicles would move along a carbon nanotube cable stretching from the moon down into Earth’s geostationary field.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2019
• Recently de-stealthed Astranis plans to send small satellites to geostationary orbit, and sell bandwidth to internet service providers, which can sell internet to people on the ground.
  — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2018
• Notably, Spaceflight Now reports, this was the first truly commercial launch into a geostationary transfer orbit worldwide this year.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 June 2022
• At higher altitudes, satellites can settle into a geostationary orbit, moving at a speed that matches the Earth’s rotation and appearing to hover over a fixed spot.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• The rocket's upper stage deployed the SXM-7 satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit 31 minutes after liftoff.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024