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To: the_wheel who wrote (7736)	8/26/2001 9:37:00 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

I am beginning to wonder who is kidding who here! :) The facts are that gravity's pull diminishes with distance but the size of the satellite is small so it's own gravitational pull on the Earth is neglible. Therefore the size of the sattelite or wings or whatever has no relevance on its orbit - though see next message or moving its orbit. It is of relevance to how big a rocket is needed to boost it to the required height of course. Higher up communications sattelites may be bigger perhaps because they cover a larger area of the earth and so need more equipment on board and a bigger antenna due to the dimunition of the electromagnetic signals from the surface, though these can be made stronger too.