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![]() This groups includes about 200 communication satellites ("comsats") scattered in synchronous orbits above the Earth's equator. At a distance of 6. 6 Earth radii (42,000 km or 26,000 miles), these satellite make one orbit per day, (sidereal day of 23 h 56 min--see here) and therefore as the Earth turns, they always stay above the same ground station. Comsats have become essential to the relaying of television broadcasts, long distance telephone connections and computer communications: if you are receiving this from the world-wide web (especially if you are outside the US) this document might well have been routed to you through one of them. |
GPS has played an enormous role in the second Gulf War, precisely guiding missiles and bombs to specific targets in Iraq. In the weekly magazine of the aerospace industry "Space News International," issue of 31 March 2003, Jeremy Singer and Simon Saradzhyan wrote that Iraq had anticipated this and set up transmitters to jam GPS signals and interfere with them. They reported that 6 such transmitters were located and destroyed , the last of them by a GPS-guided bomb. For a detailed article about this technology, see "Satellite-Guided Munitions" by Michael Puttré, p. 66-73 in "Scientific American," issue of February 2003. |
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Author and Curator: Dr. David P. Stern
Mail to Dr.Stern: stargaze("at" symbol)phy6.org .
Last updated: 8 April 2003