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Geostationary satellites need to be in equatorial plane.
Now my first doubt is what exactly is the equatorial plane?
Is it just locus of all points have 0 latitude
or locus of all points having a fixed latitude say 5.
{Like does a orbit in equatorial plane mean that its latitude is 0 degree
or does it mean that the latitude is constant throughout the orbit not necessarily 0 like say 15)
Also if the answer is that the latitude is just 0 and not anyither fixed value then please explain why a geostationary orbit cannot have an orbit in any other latitude as i feel it still will have the required time period and would appear stationary at all times.
Now my first doubt is what exactly is the equatorial plane?
Is it just locus of all points have 0 latitude
or locus of all points having a fixed latitude say 5.
{Like does a orbit in equatorial plane mean that its latitude is 0 degree
or does it mean that the latitude is constant throughout the orbit not necessarily 0 like say 15)
Also if the answer is that the latitude is just 0 and not anyither fixed value then please explain why a geostationary orbit cannot have an orbit in any other latitude as i feel it still will have the required time period and would appear stationary at all times.