[Ilugc] digital freedom in iitm?

  • From: shakthimaan@xxxxxxxxx (Shakthi Kannan)
  • Date: Mon May 12 12:30:55 2008

Hi,

--- On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
<girishvenkatachalam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| Secondly GPS satellites are not geostationary (Am I wrong?).
\--

Yes. At an altitude of 20,000 km compared to 36,000 km for a
geostationary satellite. So, you need inputs from a series of
satellites to determine the receiver position.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_constellation

SK

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Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com

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