How to Use geosynchronous in a Sentence
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The craft would have entered a geosynchronous orbit along Africa's west coast.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2016
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The second type of satellite orbit is called geosynchronous orbit, and that’s much farther away.
—The Conversation, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2023
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Many of the satellites that are ripe military targets are in geosynchronous orbits.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2018
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The asteroid will be well within the orbit of geosynchronous satellites, according to the agency.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2023
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On May 15, SpaceX launched its heaviest payload ever to geosynchronous transfer orbit, a vantage point far above the Earth.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 June 2017
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The new rocket is designed to place payloads weighing up to 6,500kg into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 May 2020
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Staying over one spot makes geosynchronous satellites sitting ducks but also protects them.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2018
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At such altitudes, satellites’ orbiting speed aligns with how fast the planet spins–so satellites remain over a fixed point, in what is called geosynchronous orbit.
—Jean Creighton, Quartz, 19 July 2019
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Their planet might be orbited by billions or trillions of geosynchronous satellites instead of our measly 400.
—NBC News, 19 Mar. 2018
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It has been refurbished and refueled, and the launch vehicle is ready to loft the SES-10 communications satellite to a geosynchronous orbit.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2017
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After the company's rideshare launch in October, its MEV-1 spacecraft used electric-propulsion thrusters to raise its orbit 290km above geosynchronous orbit.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2020
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In March 2020, the satellite was rediscovered in geosynchronous orbit, still broadcasting nearly fifty years after it was retired.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2020
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Nearly 43 minutes after liftoff, the satellite separated and deployed as well to a geosynchronous transfer orbit.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 20 May 2021
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Indeed, sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke had written up a prescient scheme predicting the use of geosynchronous satellites for communications as early as 1945.
—NBC News, 4 Oct. 2017
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But space in geosynchronous orbits is limited, and one collision there could damage several satellites.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
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This story was updated to clarify the efficiency of a solar array deployed in a geosynchronous orbit.
—WIRED, 7 Feb. 2023
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However, Astranis is building smaller, cheaper satellites but then putting them in high, geosynchronous orbits.
—Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2020
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Some launches deploy their satellites directly into geosynchronous orbit, of course.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2021
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But geosynchronous orbits can be more than 20 times farther away, making the stuff out there look both significantly smaller and significantly dimmer.
—Wired, 29 Aug. 2019
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OneWeb also has an investment from Hughes, which operates geosynchronous satellites.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 31 July 2020
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The heavy-lift rocket's most recent previous launch on April 30 put another geosynchronous broadband satellite into orbit -- ViaSat-3.1 -- but that spacecraft's huge mesh antenna failed to fully deploy and the relay station may be a total loss.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 29 July 2023
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Expensive telecommunications satellites like Spaceway-1 orbit thousands of miles deeper into space in an area known as geosynchronous orbit.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 24 Jan. 2020
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After launching, the Atlas V rocket will deliver the pair of communications satellites into near-circular, near-geosynchronous orbits.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2022
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Telstar makes real a 1945 concept by science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, who envisioned a global communications network based on geosynchronous satellites.
—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2022
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Our current space architecture, made up of older, larger, multi-sensor satellites in low, medium, and highly stable — and vulnerable — geosynchronous orbits, is vulnerable.
—Jerry Hendrix, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
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