Flight Question what is the altitude of the geostationary orbit on Mars?

[crazydogg]

hello, I have a doubt, I wonder what is the altitude of the geostationary orbit on Mars and also Jupiter. yet I could only find the geostationary orbit of the earth, and I longed for geostationary satellites in Mars and Jupiter:thumbup:

 

[tblaxland]

You can calculate it yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit#Derivation_of_geostationary_altitude

Mars, areostationary radius 20428 km.

Jupiter doesn't really have a surface, so I'm not sure what you are trying to stay above. The equatorial belt has a period of 35430 s. Using that, the zenostationary radius is 159112 km. The period in Orbiter is somewhat different to this though, you'll want to review its config file for that value.

 

[crazydogg]

Thank you very much :thumbup:

 

[Tommy]

To save some potential confusion, I'll point out that the figures given above are Radius, not Altitude.

 

[Snake]

Due to the fact that Jupiter is so large and spins relatively fast, i think a "geostationary orbit" in it would lie deep within it's atmosphere...

There goes your plans of putting satellites there :lol:


EDIT : Forgot to consider Jupiter's mass, calculated it should give r=83663 Km, i used orbiters SidRotPeriod = 13500.3 seconds to this, if you use the cloud rotation period of 35700 seconds it should be r=159987 Km as stated by tblaxland, tested both on orbiter and the one that gave me a latitude hold was 83663 Km.

Pretty cool calculating that.

 

[Keatah]

Due to the fact that Jupiter is so large and spins relatively fast, i think a "geostationary orbit" in it would lie deep within it's atmosphere...

There goes your plans of putting satellites there :lol:

if that were the case, shouldn't the atmosphere fly off into space?

 

[Grover]

not with a huge mass and "Crush you with your own hair" gravity. seriously, the gravity there is immense. theres why we havent been smacked with jupiter's atmosphere already, unless its soemthing stupid like a black hole in the middle of jupiter

 

[Wishbone]

Why would anyone want to be in a stationary orbit around Jupiter? There's no population to supply with TV broadcasts, and the environment is deadly...

 

[Kodiaj157]

Why would anyone want to be in a stationary orbit around Jupiter? There's no population to supply with TV broadcasts, and the environment is deadly...

For the same reason people climb Mt. Everest....because they can!:thumbup:

 

[Wishbone]

With one small difference: after climbing Mt.Everest (even without oxygen mask!) one has chances of leaving offspring, after crossing Jupiter's radiation belts these chances roll to zero.