The Synchronous Satellite
Find the radius of the orbit of a synchronous satellite which circles the earth. (A synchronous satellite goes around the earth once every 24 hours, so that its position appears stationary with respect to a ground station.) The simplest way to find the answer and give your results is by expressing all distances in terms of the earth's radius. Note that R is the radius of the earth.
The answer is 6.6.
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