How Do Satellites Stay in Place? | In Orbit | BBC Earth Science

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For Satellites to work most of them need to stay in one place. So you may think it's simple, the satellite needs to spin at the same pace as Earth. But nothing is ever that easy, because if a satellite was to spin at Earth's rotational speed it would crash back down into Earth.

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In Orbit: How Satellites Rule Our World (2012)
How the thousands of satellites orbiting the Earth have transformed the modern world.

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