Labels:text | screenshot | software OCR: SATELLITE ORBITS SPACE TECHNOLOGY Russian communications satellites much higher geostationary orbit. use them. An orbit at an angle of Communications satellites may about 60º to the equator can take a be launched into LEO, then fire their satellite over the northern areas of rocket motor once to elongate this the Russian Federation. However, orbit to an elliptical, geostationary- satellites in eccentric orbit are not transfer orbit, and then again at the geostationary, but move across the farthest point of this orbit to change sky, so that aerials on the ground it into a circular, geostationary orbit. must move to track them. To provide Alternatively, they may be placed continuous coverage, two or three directly into a geostationary-transfer satellites are necessary, spaced at orbit, and g ...
