Station Keeping:
In
addition to having its attitude controlled, it is important that a geo-
stationary satellite be kept in its correct orbital slot. The equatorial
ellipticity of the earth causes geostationary satellites to drift slowly along
the orbit, to one of two stable points, at 75°E and 105°W.
To
counter this drift, an oppositely directed velocity component is imparted to
the satellite by means of jets, which are pulsed once every 2 or 3 weeks.
These
maneuvers are termed east-west station-keeping maneuvers. Satellites in the
6/4-GHz band must be kept within 0.1° of the desig- nated longitude, and in the
14/12-GHz band, within 0.05°.
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