What is a geostationary satellite? Is it same as geo-synchronous satellite?

Write the main characterisitics of geostationary satellite and polar satellite.

What is a Geotstationary Satellite? State an essential feature of it.

What is artificial satellite?

As you have learnt in the text, a geostationary satellite orbits the earth at a height of nearly 36,000 km from the surface of the earth. What is the potential due to earth’s gravity at the site of this satellite? (Take the potential energy at infinity to be zero). Mass of the earth = 6.0 xx 10^24 kg, radius = 6400 km

Why does a person in a satellite feels weightlessness?

How does the orbital velocity of a satellite depend on the mass of the satellite?

A small mass is released by an astronaut in a satellite in space. Will it fall on the earth?

What is the orbital velocity for a satellite orbiting close to the surface of earth?