From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!sri-unix!FISCHER@RUTGERS
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: Geosynchronus orbits
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1343
Posted: Tue May 10 10:07:00 1983
Received: Fri May 13 03:53:04 1983

From:  Ron <FISCHER@RUTGERS>

I recently heard that we're running out of space over North America in
which to place geosynch satellites.  Apparently they can't be spaced
closer than 2 degrees (?) or we can't discriminate them from the
ground.

This doesn't sound very reasonable.  Could the satellites be spaced
closer and operated on different radio channels?  Also, are geosynch
orbits neccessarily over the equator?

(ron)
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