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Words related to geosynchronous

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  • anik

    one of a series of Canadian geosynchronous communications satellites that provide telephone and television transmissions.

  • geostationary

    of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.

  • payload assist module

    a U.S. solid-propellant rocket used to boost a medium-weight spacecraft from a circular low-earth orbit to an elliptical transfer orbit for later insertion into a geosynchronous orbit. Abbreviation: PAM.

  • satcom

    one of a series of privately financed geosynchronous communications satellites that provide television, voice, and data transmissions to the U.S.

  • telstar

    either of two low-altitude active communications satellites launched in 1962 and 1963 by the US and used in the transmission of television programmes, telephone messages, etc
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