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A group of communications satellites have to be deployed in a synchronized way, to continuously cover the area they target. Changing the orbit of this satellite would mean changing the orbits of the other 16 satellites as well. Also I'm pretty sure you have to license a particular orbit ahead of time instead of just picking whatever is convenient at the moment.


Were they putting this into the exact same orbit as the others? I thought it was mostly a test sat.

Who do you license orbits from?


I googled a little, and apparently the radiocommunication satellites are regulated by ITU: http://www.itu.int/en/about/Pages/whatwedo.aspx .


Issac Newton got quite bored after becoming immortal and now has a little booth set up at the patent office. Don't take the piss out of his wig, otherwise you will get nowhere with him.




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