GEO ComSats for Hosted Payloads
GEO Orbit Benefits
- Current and future science missions can use GEO hosted payload approach
- GEO offers unique temporal and spatial resolution
- GEO orbits allow continuous observations of the same geographic region
- Spatial and temporal changes can be distinguished
- Eliminate ambiguity inherent to observations from low Earth orbit (LEO)
- Near-global coverage can be provided with only three geostationary satellites (i.e. positioned to view Europe/Middle East/Africa, Asia/Australasia, and the Americas)
- GOES, SDO, TDRSS are NASA GEO missions
