Example of Satellite in High Earth Orbit
| Name | NSSDC id. | Launch date | Perigee | Apogee | Period | Inclination |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vela 1A | 1963-039A | 1963-10-17 | 101,925 km | 116,528 km | 6,519.6 min | 37.8° |
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Famous quotes containing the words satellite, high, earth and/or orbit:
“Books are the best things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.”
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“Nothing on earth more would I have,
Save that I have, to have it still.”
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“Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.”
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