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Regarding the communications satellite orbit; a geosynchronous orbit is one that keeps the satellite in one position in the sky. It is a spot in space about 22,000 miles away that the satellite will orbit the earth once a day, so it is moving the same speed as the earth rotates and appears to never move. If your dish network satellite was not in geosynchrous orbit, you would need a device to turn your dish and there would be periods that the satellite would be over a different part of the world, like the sun and moon. They would slip over the horizon and you wouldn't be able to watch TV for a while.

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