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
• The second type of satellite orbit is called geosynchronous orbit, and that’s much farther away.
  — The Conversation, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2023
• Many of the satellites that are ripe military targets are in geosynchronous orbits.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2018
• The asteroid will be well within the orbit of geosynchronous satellites, according to the agency.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2023
• 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
• The new rocket is designed to place payloads weighing up to 6,500kg into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 May 2020
• Staying over one spot makes geosynchronous satellites sitting ducks but also protects them.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Their planet might be orbited by billions or trillions of geosynchronous satellites instead of our measly 400.
  — NBC News, 19 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The rocket, built entirely from Russian components, can lift 23 metric tons to low Earth orbit and 5.4 metric tons to geosynchronous Earth orbit.
  — George Dvorsky / Gizmodo, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Nearly 43 minutes after liftoff, the satellite separated and deployed as well to a geosynchronous transfer orbit.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 20 May 2021
• 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
• But space in geosynchronous orbits is limited, and one collision there could damage several satellites.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
• This story was updated to clarify the efficiency of a solar array deployed in a geosynchronous orbit.
  — WIRED, 7 Feb. 2023
• However, Astranis is building smaller, cheaper satellites but then putting them in high, geosynchronous orbits.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2020
• Some launches deploy their satellites directly into geosynchronous orbit, of course.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2021
• The former is shorthand for geosynchronous equatorial orbit.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Feb. 2022
• 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
• OneWeb also has an investment from Hughes, which operates geosynchronous satellites.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 31 July 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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