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Term: stationary satellite
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Definition: a satellite which remains fixed or, by extension, approximately fixed, with respect to a system of coordinates associated with the primary body, and which therefore appears to be fixed relative to an observer on the surface of the primary body

NOTE – A stationary satellite is a synchronous satellite with an orbit which is equatorial, circular and direct.


Publication date:1994-08
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