Health Sciences homework help
Health Sciences homework help. Communications satellites are placed in circular orbits where they stay directly over a ?xed point on the equator as the earth rotates. These are called geosynchronous orbits. The altitude of a geosynchronous orbit is 3.58×107 m (? 22,000 miles). (a) What is the period of a satellite in a geosynchronous orbit?(b) Find the value of g at this altitude.