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  1. Alternative name for geostationary orbit, an
  2. orbit 35,900 km/22,300 mi high, in which
  3. satellites circle at the same speed as the
  4. Earth turns. This orbit was first suggested
  5. by space writer Arthur C Clarke in 1945.
  6.