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At the time appointed I sent the wake signal to the relay satellite, which was in stationary orbit about 300 miles over South Karhide.

If you were to watch the so-called Great American Eclipse from a satellite in a stationary orbit, like this one over the Pacific, this is pretty much what you’d see as the eclipse traces its path across the United States.

At that point, it was supposed to have been propelled by engine boosters into stationary orbit.

But the space agency charges approximately $28 million to put satellites into the geosynchronous, or stationary, orbit used for telecommunications signals.

Ariane's launch site on the equator means that a gentler trajectory, and consequently less fuel, is required to boost a payload into stationary orbit.