Re: OT: Guns in Space

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:07:17 GMT, D from BC <myrealaddress@xxxxxxxxx>
Gave us:

A problem everywhere?
IIRC tv satellites are parked about the equator... This is why dishes
point southish in Canada.


They are also several miles above what would be called "near Earth
locations".

The term is geosynchronous.
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