Re: Defining Geostationary Sats

From: Ralph McConahy (rmcconahy@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Jul 07 2000 - 07:01:30 PDT

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>I want to set a filter in my software to sort
>out Geostationary satellites from a TLE file. What would be a quick and
>dirty definition such as "if altitude is greater than ??? and within?.??
>degrees of 0 latitude"?

Some LEOs are near 0° latitude so that wouldn't work. Better would be to
filter on Mean Motion (any sat with a MM near 1 would qualify as a GEO or
close to GEO).

  Ralph McConahy
  34.8829N  117.0064W  670m


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