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The path a body takes while moving through space under the influence of the gravitational forces of other bodies

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Can there be other Positions of Geostationary Satellites?

Previous answer is correct. However, IIRC, if your launch site is at high latitude so cannot practicably access equatorial orbit, you may mimic the coverage using several satellites sharing a very ell …
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Reasons for decaying orbit for satellites and spacecrafts

If the satellite is big enough, or trails a long antenna / tether, there may be magnetically induced electrical effects as it traverses Earth's geomagnetic field. This has been suggested as a way to p …
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Collision of two satellites

IMHO, closest analogy would be the 2009 Iridium / Kosmos hyper-velocity impact... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision To put it politely, there was a strew of debris, sent every whi …
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