Geostationary orbit

A geostationary orbit is a terrestrial orbit - special case of the orbit geosynchronicznej which assures for satellite circling all over it keeping the permanent position above the chosen point of the equator of the Earth. The geostationary orbit is a circular orbit and he/she is running at the 35 786 km level (42 160 km from the centre of the Earth), that is in situ where the strength of the gravity is being balanced by the centrifugal force in the tied arrangement with the turning Earth. She is being used mainly by geostationary satellites, especially telecommunications and meteorological. Putting telecommunications satellites in the geostationary orbit lets the contact for holding the constant with them at using directional antennae without the need of unceasing changing direction to place the aerial. An impossibility to embrace is a fault with reach of big latitudes (of circumpolar surroundings).


Film facilitating understanding permanent putting the satellite relative to the Earth and it once adjusted television satellites constantly are aimed into right satellite. The view of the Earth from the satellite and inversely is still the same.