geostationary satellites

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• Geostationary orbit — Geostationary orbit.To an observer on the rotating Earth (fixed point on the Earth), the satellite appears stationary in the sky. A red satellite is also geostationary above its own point on Earth. Top Down View …   Wikipedia

• geostationary — adjective At a fixed distance in three dimensions relative to a particular point on the Earths surface; generally only possible with orbital satellites. The measurement is accomplished by observing the Faraday rotation angle of signals from… …   Wiktionary

• Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Goes (homonymie). Le satellite GOES 14, représentant de la version opérationnelle la plus récente, avant son lancement en 2009 …   Wikipédia en Français

• Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (or GOES) program is a key element in United States National Weather Service (NWS) operations. GOES weather imagery and quantitative sounding data are a continuous and reliable stream of… …   Wikipedia

• Geostationary transfer orbit — A Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit or Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) is a Hohmann transfer orbit around the Earth between a low Earth orbit (LEO) and a geosynchronous orbit (GEO). It is an ellipse where the perigee is a point on a LEO and the… …   Wikipedia

• Geostationary Meteorological Satellite — Pour les articles homonymes, voir GMS. Vue de la tempête tropicale Caitlin prise par le satellite GMS 4, le 3 août 1994 Le Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (GMS) est le nom donné au programme de …   Wikipédia en Français

• Geostationary meteorological satellite — The Japan Meteorological Agency used a series of Geostationary Meteorological Satellites (GMS) to carry out weather observation from space. The first GMS satellite was launched 1977 07 14 from Kennedy Space Center. The fifth and final satellite… …   Wikipedia

• geostationary orbit —       a circular orbit 35,785 km (22,236 miles) above Earth s (Earth) Equator in which a satellite s (satellite) orbital period is equal to Earth s rotation period of 23 hours and 56 minutes. A spacecraft in this orbit appears to an observer on… …   Universalium

• Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — one of a series of U.S. geostationary meteorological satellites that collect data for worldwide weather forecasting. Abbr.: GOES * * * …   Universalium

• geostationary —    Also known as geosynchronous. The type of orbit required to keep a communications satellite in a fixed position relative to the earth.    The satellite s angular rate and direction of rotation are matched to those of the earth, and the… …   Dictionary of networking

• Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — one of a series of U.S. geostationary meteorological satellites that collect data for worldwide weather forecasting. Abbr.: GOES …   Useful english dictionary