Talk:Geosynchronous satellite
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[edit] Previous discussions without headers
The Telstar page claims that it was the first satellite to relay phone calls. This page claims that it was Syncom II a year later. The Syncom page expresses no opinion. So which is it? Rmhermen 20:55, May 1, 2004 (UTC)
All satellites have a "fraction-of-a-second" delay lag. While the next sentence quantifies it nicely, I think it would be better to combine the two. Suggestions? Ventura 20:21, 2004 Jul 23 (UTC)
- I agree. Since no more comments have shown up in the last few months, I've gone ahead and just deleted the "fraction of a second" bit (usually "a fraction of a second" also seems to mean "a really short time" in conversation, so this should be clearer...) Ealex292 23:47, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] The Call for Attention
This article is titled "Geosynchronous satellite" but almost the entire article is about geostationary satelites.
- Moving article to geostationary satellite per request. Isopropyl 19:41, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
It appears that geostationary satellite redirects here. Perhaps it should be the other way around? This would require an administrator. Isopropyl 19:46, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rather shocked!
Quote:
"Satellite dishes in the Northern Hemisphere would need to be pointed almost directly towards the horizon."
This makes no sense at all; half of the world is in the Northern Hemisphere, some of it so close to the equator that an antenna might have to point perfectly skyward to reach a certain geostationary satellite....
But much, much more shocking is (quote):
"with countries barely out of the stone age demanding their orbit slots "
Can anyone think that that has any place in wikipedia? It's the insane peak of a generally dodginess-filled article, but what an outstanding peak it is. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 190.40.130.44 (talk) 05:34, 13 April 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Plagiarism
This article has a fairly obvious case of plagiarism:
In paragraph six of "Geostationary Satellites" there is a reference to "Fig 2-16". Since this article has no figures, and Wikipedia does not reference its figures in such a matter, I can only assume that this material was taken directly from another (unauthorized) source. The parenthetical notations found within the same section further confirm this. The lack of links to articles lends further credence to the theory that the section was copied and pasted wholesale into this article.
I think someone needs to investigate and possibly remove the plagiarized entries in this article. Perhaps the source could be found and cited...
68.97.185.99 01:42, 11 May 2007 (UTC)DRB
[edit] Strongly oppose merger
There should be a distinct page on geosychronous satellites which covers the design and operation and station-keeping policies for the kinds of satellites we have chosen to launch into this very special orbit. It's ludicrous to suggest that geosynchronous orbit should have giant chunks of material on telecoms applications and orbital slot allocation treaties, both of which would be appropriate within an article about the satellites themselves. As it happens, this article doesn't yet contain much of this material, but it probably should. MaxEnt 01:42, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
