MEDIUM EARTH ORBIT

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Information on Medium earth orbit (MEO)

A medium earth orbit (MEO) is a circular satellite orbit of heights between 10,000 km and 15,000 km above the earth. Also called intermediate circular orbit (ICO).


Other topics in our resources on Communications Systems related to Medium earth orbit include: 
 
  • Low-earth orbit (LEO)
  • geostationary earth orbit (GEO)
  • geosynchronous orbit
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  • intermediate circular orbit (ICO)
  • Uplink
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  • Highly elliptical orbit (HEO)
  • Transponder
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