This is a clip from a BBC 4 special called The Satellite Story. This clip hilights the efforts by amateur astronomers to track satellites. There is a great sequence of their efforts to track the International Space Station.
Umm...most of them are in GSO...so most of the time the satellites which we use every day move at about the same speed as the earth's rotation.
As for the other satellites it depends on the velocity of which they are released and the distance in their elliptical orbit from the earth. This is because velocity is dx/dt. However, it mostly depends on the orbit that it follows i.e. GSO/LEO/GEO.
They do not need propulsion because they are in space and there is no resistive force to slow them down.
@aaopwner they do need fuel, their orbit slowly decays over time and has to be corrected every so often
fishboy1111111 4 months ago
@AAAAkuuuu solar
MovieMad007 7 months ago
more to the point...what is an American Spy Satellite doing over UK airspace??????
MovieMad007 8 months ago
bang goes the western alliance! thats billions of defence pounds and dollars down the drain lol
MovieMad007 8 months ago
I am looking at getting an lx 200 8" for doing the same thing can you advise please any tips welcome?
TheMLWS 8 months ago
exellent work
fohtynine 1 year ago
@AAAAkuuuu depends on the sat.
awesome3165 2 years ago
that's what I thought... So the videos I have of craft changing speed and direction couldn't possibly be satellites.
I'm pretty familiar with the ones in orbit... they move along with the stars but flash colors.
Check out some of my vids and tell me what you think.
AAAAkuuuu 2 years ago
Umm...most of them are in GSO...so most of the time the satellites which we use every day move at about the same speed as the earth's rotation.
As for the other satellites it depends on the velocity of which they are released and the distance in their elliptical orbit from the earth. This is because velocity is dx/dt. However, it mostly depends on the orbit that it follows i.e. GSO/LEO/GEO.
They do not need propulsion because they are in space and there is no resistive force to slow them down.
aaopwner 2 years ago
What kind of propulsion do these satellites have?
How much fuel?
what's the average speed?
AAAAkuuuu 2 years ago