Example Sentences

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Like the Soviet-designed Proton it’s set to replace, the new rocket is intended to launch intelligence and communication satellites to geostationary orbits.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2024

France-based Eutelsat provides television and internet via 36 satellites in geostationary orbits around the Earth’s equator.

From The Verge • Jul. 26, 2022

Incumbents like HughesNet and Viasat have been slinging satellite internet service in the United States for years and have parked their satellites in high, geostationary orbits — 22,000 miles from the ground or so.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2021

These travel at altitudes anywhere between about 2,000 kilometres up, where low Earth orbit ends, and 35,000 kilometres up, where geostationary orbits begin.

From Nature • Sep. 4, 2018

Most communications and many weather satellites are parked high above the equator at an altitude of 23,300 miles in "geostationary orbits," hovering over the same spot on the ground.

From Time Magazine Archive