Originally Posted by
wrxpilot
And not moving for 10-15 mins (~100 nm)? I’ve seen a lot of satellites, iridium flares, and the space station. Without exception, all of those objects moved rather significantly and were out of view within a minute. This stayed absolutely stationary, which is what we both thought was so strange.
A geostationary orbit, also referred to as a geosynchronous equatorial orbit, is a circular geosynchronous orbit 35,786 kilometres above Earth's equator and following the direction of Earth's rotation.