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The famous Science Fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke, came upwith the idea of a geosynchronous communication satellite in 1945,20 years before the first one, the Intelsat I, was launched. Thisis a great example of Science Fiction becoming fact. If a satelliteis geosynchronous then its period is one day. [So, it staysdirectly above one point on Earth's surface.] Let's say that wehave a geosynchronous communication satellite in orbit aroundEarth. Calculate the altitude of the satellite (in miles).

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