geosynchronousin a sentence
- The space elevator would require a large mass in geosynchronous orbit to act as an anchor.
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He used the term geosynchronous orbit; though it would have been technically accurate to say geostationary orbit.
geosynchronous = an orbit that takes one day to complete
- It looks exactly like the earth would look from a point in geosynchronous orbit directly above L.A… complete with weather systems—vast spinning galaxies of clouds, hovering just above the surface of the globe, casting gray shadows on the oceans-and polar ice caps, fading and fragmenting into the sea.† (source)
- Her tiny piping voice bounced down to me from a hollow ball in geosynchronous orbit.† (source)
- The next wake-up signal, AAA—encrypted, of course—would alert them to go to periscope-antenna depth to get more detailed instructions from SSIX, the submarine satellite information exchange, a geosynchronous communications satellite used exclusively by submarines.† (source)
- The Paw is a paw—it's an extension of the ship that is currently in geosynchronous orbit over Brazil.† (source)
- "The upper platform rests in geosynchronous orbit," the Glatun said.† (source)
- They're doing a ball-of-twine orbit instead of their normal geosynchronous."† (source)
- As he gets closer, the imagery he's looking at shifts from the long-range pictures coming in from the geosynchronous satellites to the good stuff being spewed into the CIC computer from a whole fleet of low-flying spy birds.† (source)
- His neighbor at the next console was watching data from a geosynchronous weather satellite that monitored the Western Hemisphere.† (source)
- Request change of flight plan, direct ascent to geosynchronous, return trip to Huntsville FAA control….† (source)