XPost: sci.space.science   
   From: ken@home.nz.retro.com   
      
   "Andrew Gray"  wrote in message   
   news:slrnd29bo4.7b6.andrew.gray@compsoc.dur.ac.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.   
   >   
   > --   
   > -Andrew Gray   
   >  andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk   
      
   Touché. Mental note - keep fingers off keyboard before second cuppa.   
      
   Ken   
      
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