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If you stopped an Earth satellite dead in its tracks—that is, reduced its tangential veloc...

If you stopped an Earth satellite dead in its tracks—that is, reduced its tangential velocity to zero—it would simply crash into Earth. Why, then, don’t the communication satellites that “hover motionless” above the same spot on Earth crash into Earth?

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