INDIA'S SPACE JOURNEY AND GEOSTATIONARY

AND POLAR SATELLITE

BY
M.SIVAGANESH
CLASS:11
WHO FOUND
GEOSTATIONARY
SATELLITE
“Harold
● Rosen” who was known as the “FATHER OF
GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITE” found the geostationary
satellite. He firstly found a satellite named Syncom 2.
● It was launched on a Delta rocket B booster from Cape
Canaveral July 26, 1963.
GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE
Geostationary satellite is a satellite that revolves
from west to east during a period of revolution.
Geostationary satellite is placed in orbit at a distance
of around 35,800 km from the earth’s surface.
The time period of a geostationary satellite is 24 hrs.
This circular orbit is concentric and coplanar with
the equatorial plane of earth.
These satellites can be manmade.
This type of satellite appears at rest from the earth
because the relative velocity of this satellite with
respect to the earth is zero.
This basically means that the satellite revolves
keeping the earth below it.
 WHO FOUND POLAR SATELLITE

The Global Geospace Science (GGS) Polar satellite was a

NASA science spacecraft designed to study the polar
magnetosphere and aurorae. It was launched into orbit
in February 1996, and continued operations until the
program was terminated in April 2008.
 POLAR SATELLITE
A satellite which revolves in polar orbits of earth is called
polar satellite. Polar satellite revolves at less height from the
earth surface. The satellite's distance from earth surface is
approximately 500km to 800km. Through polar satellites
many important information can be gathered such as
images of clouds, information about atmosphere, hole in
ozone layer etc. The important thing is that a polar satellite
can observe earth's whole surface once or twice a day
through its camera.