Clarke in the early 50's. Aldous Huxley commented that the establishment of such devices would be a global calamity of major proportions. Now we can judge whether he was right or not. The idea of ...

Here is the gravitational constastant, and is the mass of the earth. For a stable circular orbit, the centrifugal force, which is directed outward radially must balance the gravitational force, which ...

The geosynchronous (also geostationary) orbit that satellites are placed into. It was named after Arthur C. Clarke who proposed the concept in 1945. See GEO and Clarke's laws. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

And while that’s true, it’s true only for low Earth orbit satellites such as the ISS. If you want to reach a satellite in geosynchronous orbit it’ll take a little more effort, and this dual ...

The 49.1 metre tall rocket weighing 416 tonnes would sling the 2,117 kg GSAT-6 communication satellite in the geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) around 17 minutes into the flight. This is the ...