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Homework: Unreasonable Request - Member warned that some work must be shown.
- Homework Statement
- Hello all,
I have studying about radio communication, I came across a question which asked the fraction of area of earth covered by geostationary satellites. The answer given is 1/3. And when I go to see the solution it says a minimum of three geostationary satellites equiadistance 120° apart are required to cover the earth. I search more about it on the internet at some places they say that in that minimum 2 are needed to cover whole earth but to have interconnect them 3 are needed.
- Relevant Equations
- I used a little of trigonometry but it didn't match with the answer
My question is, given that the height of geostationary satellite to be 35786 Km and radius of about 6378km determine the area covered by a geostationary satellite Or deteremine minimum number of geostationary satellites requires to cover whole earth. Regards thanks a bunch :)