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Chapter 609 Synchronous Geostationary Orbit
When Bailixiu ascended to a thousand kilometers away from the One Piece planet, he could see the entire One Piece planet. From space, the entire One Piece planet was covered with blue water.

The red earth continent surrounding the entire planet divides the entire planet into two parts.

It looks like a red ring from space. Of course, you can occasionally see green or khaki islands in the blue sea.

Of course, now is not the time for Bailixiu to appreciate the beauty of space. Bailixiu's main job now is to find King Uranus.

This is the most important thing, but Bailixiu found that even though he had ascended to a thousand kilometers in space, there was still no trace of King Noranos.

Even the Kunpeng's built-in radar, which has a search range of one thousand kilometers, was not found. So Bailixiu, who circled the orbit of the Pirate King for several times and found no trace of King Uranus, suddenly fell into self-doubt. , could it be that Doflamingo’s information is inaccurate.

However, Bailixiu did not panic but looked above his head, wondering whether Uranus, the King of Heaven, was in the synchronous geostationary orbit of the Pirate King's planet.

It is similar to those geostationary satellites in the world before Bailixiu traveled.

A geostationary satellite is a satellite that orbits the Blue Star in a Blue Star synchronous orbit, which means that its orbital period is the same as the Blue Star's rotation period.In other words, the time it takes for a geostationary satellite to orbit the blue star is the same as the blue star's rotation period.That's why when you look at it from a fixed location on Blue Star at a given time of day, it stays in the same area of ​​the sky.

The period of the Blue Star synchronous satellite is one sidereal day, which is 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds. This is why it seems that although it may move south or north due to the change of the inclination angle of the orbit to the Blue Star equatorial plane, it always stays there. at a single longitude.

The orbit in which Blue Star synchronous satellites operate is called a synchronous orbit.When viewed from a specific location on the Blue Star, a satellite in a Blue Star synchronous orbit will appear in exactly the same position in the sky one sidereal day later as before.For the Blue Star synchronous satellite with a circular orbit, its orbit radius is 42164 kilometers.

If you observe a satellite from a specific location on the ground for a whole day, it will either move north or south in a figure-eight trajectory, or it will stay in the same position.

The latter type of satellite that remains stationary in the same position is called a geostationary satellite, which plays an indispensable role in global communications and weather forecasting.However, many people cannot distinguish between Blue Star geostationary satellites and geostationary satellites, and tend to think that they are the same thing, but this is not the case.

Geostationary satellites are geostationary satellites, but geostationary satellites are not necessarily geostationary satellites. There is a big difference between geostationary satellites and blue star geostationary satellites.

The geostationary orbit, also known as the Blue Star geostationary orbit and the Blue Star synchronous equatorial orbit, is a circular orbit 35786 kilometers above the surface of the Blue Star, with an inclination angle of zero to the equatorial plane.The satellite in this orbit is called a geostationary satellite, and its orbital period is also one sidereal day, which is 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, which means that its revolution period is also the same as the blue star's rotation period.

But since the orbital period of the geostationary satellite is the same as the rotation period of the Blue Star, and it also moves from west to east in the direction of the Blue Star's autobiography, when observed from a certain point on the ground, it appears to be hovering at a point in the sky.This is why it is called a geostationary satellite, given that it is stationary relative to a given geographical location.

So from the definitions of geostationary satellites and blue star geostationary satellites outlined above, it is clear that there is very little difference between the two.The orbital period of satellites in Blue Star synchronous orbit is the same as that of satellites in geostationary orbit, which is one sidereal day.The only difference between the two is that while Blue Star geostationary satellites may or may not orbit in an inclined orbit relative to the equatorial plane, geostationary satellites must follow a non-inclined orbit.In other words, geostationary satellites always stay on the equatorial plane of the Blue Star.

Therefore, every geostationary satellite is a Blue Star geostationary satellite, but a Blue Star geostationary satellite may not be a geostationary satellite, or it may be a Blue Star geostationary satellite.That is to say, it can be understood that Blue Star geostationary satellites are a subset of Blue Star synchronous satellites.

Blue Star geostationary satellites are commonly used for a variety of purposes, such as communicating back and forth with spacecraft such as space telescopes and space shuttles, voice communications, the Internet, broadcasting television and radio signals, and weather forecasting.Geostationary satellites, in particular, can provide Blue Star humans with detailed ground and weather-related information about specific geographical areas, making them the best choice for predicting climate trends in the region and even being used as spy satellites.

Of course, the most critical thing is that synchronous geostationary orbit is also the best orbit choice for space-based weapons.

You must know that in addition to being powerful, space-based weapons must also be accurate. Otherwise, no matter how powerful they are, they will not work.

For example, if you choose a low-Earth orbit that is only a few hundred kilometers away from the ground, then relative to the ground, a space-based weapon that is rapidly rotating around the planet will look like a rapidly passing shadow from the ground.

After all, the period of low-Earth orbit around the planet is only one hundred minutes!

In this way, the space-based weapons only have a very short intersection with the target to be hit on the ground, which will undoubtedly increase the difficulty of the strike. For example, continuous output such as lasers will not be able to cause effective damage in a short period of time.

Therefore, it is undoubtedly the best choice to place space-based weapons in synchronous geostationary orbit. Moreover, although there is a height difference of more than 3 kilometers from the ground, the speed of directional kinetic energy weapons such as lasers reaches the speed of light, so even if The difference is more than 3 kilometers, but if the speed of the weapon is the speed of light, it only takes more than tenths of a second, which is enough.

Thinking of this, Bailixiu began to control the Kunpeng without hesitation and continued to change its orbit and began to rise towards the higher space orbit of the Pirate King.

Of course, the height of the geostationary orbit of the One Piece planet will definitely not be the same as that of the Blue Star, but it should not be much different. After all, Bailixiu also saw it just now. The diameter and mass of the One Piece planet are the same as those of the Blue Star. The stars are not much different, so the synchronous orbits will not be much different.

And Bailixiu also discovered a good thing about being in space, that is, the speed at which his Kunpeng absorbs light energy and charges has increased a lot. It seems that this should be because there is no obstruction by the planet's atmosphere, so the energy emitted by the star Light energy is naturally absorbed without compromise.

Of course, although the speed of Kunpeng is very good, it still took more than two hours to change its orbit from an orbit of more than 1000 kilometers to a synchronous geostationary orbit of more than 3 kilometers.

(End of this chapter)