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| However, I'm not really comfortable sitting on top of a toilet that could hurtle me into satellite orbit with one bad flush. Now they can add in much smaller perturbations to get results useful to engineers planning satellite orbits that lie between 300 and 2,000 miles above the Earth's surface, says Andre Deprit of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md. Carver recalled that delegates from 120 countries had agreed in mid-1988-at the second session of the World Administrative Radio Conference on the Use of the Geostationary Satellite Orbit and the Planning of the Space Services Utilizing It (WARCORB 88)-on an allotment plan with regulatory provisions for the so-called "expansion bands", which ensure access to orbital positions for all International Telecommunication Union (ITU) member states. |
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