In telephone calls using a satellite, you sometimes can hear a delay in the resp

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In telephone calls using a satellite, you sometimes can hear a delay in the response of the other person. Satellites are usually either in low-Earth orbit (just above the atmosphere) or much higher in geosynchronous orbit. The latter is at an altitude of 35,785 kilometers (22,236 miles), where the satellite completes one orbit in exactly one day. Because the orbital velocity matches the spin rate of the Earth, a satellite in a circular equatorial geosynchronous orbit appears to hover motionless over a single location on the equator. The total delay in hearing your correspondent

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x=4*35785*1000 m v=299,792,458 m/s t=x/v=0.477 sec this is not long enough to notice if both persons are far apart then the delay could be longer

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