What the heck is a Geostationary Satellite anyways?
A Geostationary Satellite is a satellite or “bird” that is in a fixed position relative to the Earth. Kind of like your cars’ drivers side mirror is in a fixed position relative to the rest of your car. If you turn left or right or even in a circle the mirror stays in it’s fixed position relative to the rest of the vehicle. Make sense? A GeoSat follows the same premise, only on a larger scale and it uses physics to do so. First the how, then the why. I’m going to keep the math to a minimum. Ever noticed that if you drop something it falls to the ground? So did the folks at NASA, and they got concerned because they didn’t want satellites dropping out of the sky. It’s embarrassing and expensive. So they had to try and find the point where the satellite would maintain enough speed to keep it from falling to earth while staying in a fixed spot over the equator. Why do it this way? Because satellites (like your car) only have so much gas or propulsion fuel. Unlike your car, when they run ou
