XPost: sci.space.science   
   From: andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk   
      
   On 2005-02-28, Ken Taylor  wrote:   
   > "Jim McCauley"  wrote in message   
   > news:421ebc7e$0$42486$75868355@news.frii.net...   
   >> I realize that all spacecraft require some degree of radiation hardening,   
   >> but within reasonable limits, what are the altitude ranges that might be   
   >> recommended for earth satellites for equatorial orbit? I understand that   
   >> there are two particularly intense belts of radiation; at what altitudes   
   >> might they best be avoided?   
   >   
   > Equatorial orbit (geosynchronous orbit) is *only* at (approx) 35,000km.   
      
   Note that whilst geosynchronous orbits are equatorial, equatorial orbits   
   do not have to be geosynchronous; you can quite happily have a satellite   
   in LEO, just at an orbital inclination of zero degrees.   
      
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