Geosynchronous Orbit. Satellites in geosynchronous orbits around the earth in an area approximately 22,300 miles from the surface at the same rate that the earth turns, which allows them to complete one revolution every 24 hours.
GeoStationary Orbit; a satellite in an equatorial orbit and at an altitude that matches the rotation of the Earth. To a fixed observer on the Earth, the satellite position appears stationary.
Geostationary Orbit The path described by a satellite that always remains fixed with respects to all points on a rotating orbited body, is circular, lies in a plane and has points that revolve about the orbited body in the same direction and with the same period as the orbited body rotation.
Geosynchronous Earth Orbit
Geostationary satellite orbit. A circular orbit approximately 35,900 km above the earth, in the plane of the earth's equator, in which a satellite revolves around the earth in the same time that the earth rotates on its axis; thus the satellite appears approximately stationary over one point on the earth.
Geosynchronous Orbit; satellites in geosynchronous orbit travel around the earth in an area approximately 22,300 miles from the surface at the same rate that the earth turns, therefore completing one revolution every 24 hours.