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Flat Earth Investigations / Seeing the oblateness of the Earth in satellite images
« by Max_Almond on June 05, 2018, 08:48:24 PM »...... say the Earth is an oblate spheroid. They say satellites like the Himawari-8 are up there beaming down ......
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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Alternative Thoughs on Satellites
« by markjo on September 10, 2018, 04:23:45 PM »...... , the correct term would be pseudolite (pseudo satellite) which covers both airborne and ground based ......
...... I am new to this forum. I searched for the word satellite first and had no hits, so if there is already a ............ , please excuse me. Apparently the search for "satellites" yields much more promising results than " ............ a few threads I picked out from my search for "satellites". They don't directly address your question, but ............ do explain the FES's general views on satellites and their existence (n.b. I am not trying to ......
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Flat Earth Theory / Why do satellites follow elliptical paths?
« by BlueMoon on April 04, 2016, 02:44:31 PM »...... is it that nearly all satellites follow elliptical paths? You can define all ......
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Flat Earth Theory / Re: How do satellites orbit a flat earth?
« by totallackey on July 23, 2019, 11:54:46 AM »...... , 08:44:47 AM Hey guys, I’ve been wondering how satellites orbit a flat earth as satellites have been ............ from earth (at evening or early morning satellites look like a moving star) so I was wondering, if ......
...... developed this to the extent that they can pick a satellite, even an orbital one, and the telescope will home ............ on, and track, that satellite across the sky Look at their recent 'tracking' ............ The output from the telescope, with centralised satellite, and starfields whizzing by in the background The ............ pointing A data window, showing attributes of the satellite being tracked Here's just one ......
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Flat Earth Theory / amateur radio satellite deduction
« by jimster on March 10, 2019, 07:17:41 PM »...... are amateur radio satellites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ............ /lista_sat.php?cat=amateur A group of hams builds satellites and is getting the next one launched by SpaceX: ............ antennas, very directional, point them where the satellite is published as being, and talk to someone far ............ pointing his highly directional antenna at the satellite. There are pages and pages of web sites and ............ videos of hams showing how to build a satellite radio and showing them talking to satellites. All ......
...... before seeing them fly overhead. As for the satellite thing, no way could they track planes without ......
...... "dish cable". If you have a dish, you're using the satellite. If you have cable, you are hard-wired to a cable ............ . Satellites are used for, amongst other things; Earth ......
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Flat Earth Media / Re: SpinLaunch - new way to launch satellites into orbit?
« by JSS on April 18, 2022, 05:28:33 PM »...... a human on this thing, but if they can get micro-satellites up there that would still be very useful. Their ......
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Flat Earth Theory / Not found in the FAQ, wiki or forums: satellites? ISS?
« by JS on August 29, 2021, 11:50:33 AM »...... by search, in the wiki or in the FAQ: how do satellites work? Clearly satellites DO work somehow as ............ with a satellite TV dish can confirm: unless you point the dish to ............ the geostationary orbit has placed the satellite, you won't be able to receive a signal. Also ............ -geostationary satellites can be observed in the night sky when they ............ International Space Station, being the largest satellite, can be observed with a simple pair of binoculars ............ anyone interested. Satellites also provide tons of photographs many of which ......
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Flat Earth Theory / Re: US military satellite handed over to Amateur radio enthusiasts.
« by 3DGeek on October 02, 2017, 12:52:18 PM »...... a ham radio, you can confirm for yourself that satellites actually exist by communicating with one ............ How does such communication confirm that the satellite is in orbit around a globe? Do you understand ............ satellite tv works? The same question applies to ............ TV as well. Tom, how does satellite TV work? (or maybe more specifically, how do ............ is silent on this subject - search for the word "satellite" and you get one page where the word is used in ............ context of the moon being a satellite - and the other is this https://wiki.tfes.org/ ............ been deleted). I've seen people here saying that satellites DO exist (but follow some funky path like the ............ . Particularly troubling for all FE maps is satellites in polar orbits - because these would have to ............ patterns would have problems transporting some satellites in an equatorial orbit and others in a polar ......
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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Numerical method for satellite orbits
« by QED on May 06, 2019, 11:07:22 AM »...... of the orbital equations of motion of a satellite? This piece serves as illustration that ............ orbits, but also used to position artificial satellites around objects in our solar system. You really ............ the librational motion of an arbitrarily shaped satellite in a planar, elliptical orbit: (1 + εμcosθ)ψ" - ............ differential equation, the orbit of a tethered satellite system, we will get chaotical motions for ............ more carefully. One does not obtain a tethered satellite as a result of an approximation. Rather, the ODEs ......
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Flat Earth Theory / GPS constellation of satellites
« by spherical on April 26, 2019, 08:46:37 PM »...... you care to explain please, how GPS, satellite phones and communication in general work in high- ............ transmitter and receiver points exactly where geo satellites are, within narrow angle? ......
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Technology & Information / What is the FES’s science for satellites?
« by LeChamp on March 15, 2018, 08:52:37 PM »...... tells the more rational of us that a satellite orbits the spherical Earth. Kepler was the first ............ and applies to both natural and artificial satellites. Kepler’s work gave scientists the ability to ............ that the closer a satellite is to an object, the stronger the force of ............ must include that distance from the earth. A satellite can only have one speed when orbiting a ............ provides the centripetal force that causes satellites to orbit larger bodies. With knowledge of the ............ and the altitude of an orbiting satellite it is possible to calculate how quickly it needs ............ travel to maintain that orbit. Any particular satellite can have only one speed when orbiting a ............ centripetal force and gravitational force. For a satellite of mass m1 to orbit a body, the centripetal force ............ as: V=√(〖Gm〗_2/r) where V is velocity of the satellite, G is the gravitational constant, m is the mass ............ due to gravity at that distance. Therefore, a satellite maintains orbit due to a balance between two ............ line) The gravitational pull between the satellite and the object it orbits. Higher orbits require ............ , the point at which the relative velocity of the satellite is equal to that at the earth’s surface. Kepler’ ............ gravitation. These laws are the basis for any satellite placed in orbit around a spherical planet, like ............ explain the science and proven laws to place a satellite above a flat earth. ......
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Flat Earth Theory / Re: geostationary satellites
« by jimster on December 20, 2021, 08:06:29 PM »...... fascinating technology. One of them was gps satellites held up by giant invisible balloons. Some FE ......
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Flat Earth Media / Re: Himawari 8 Satellite Analysis
« by Tumeni on February 01, 2019, 06:38:03 PM »...... partners with the JMA on Hamawawi, lie about the satellite and make things up about it being based on blue ......
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Flat Earth Theory / Re: What is that speck of light we spherical Earthlings call satellites?
« by UnionsOfSolarSystemPlanet on April 10, 2016, 11:24:27 AM »...... "speck of light" that we spherical Earthlings call satellites for the sake of argument let's just focus on ......
...... Marine Academy (USMMA) began issuing personal satellite communication devices to Midshipmen who will be ............ in the Sea Year program is provided a functional satellite communication device.” Updated: Wednesday, ......
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Flat Earth Theory / Re: polar orbit satellites
« by JohnAdams1145 on January 03, 2018, 05:10:42 PM »...... well too. Trilateration does not require orbiting satellites. As for the obvious, I'm sure someone has taken ............ telescope to observe a polar orbit satellite. Doesn't that completely discount the unproven ......
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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Could satellite tracking prove the Earth is a globe?
« by StinkyOne on September 11, 2017, 12:12:02 PM »...... much. As we've been talking about in this thread, satellites are quite easily visible in the sky with no ......
...... within 8.7° of each pole are the geostationary satellites not "visible" at all. ......
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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Outer space satellites-not addressed in FAQ page
« by Chris on January 03, 2016, 07:37:33 AM »...... please answer my question? What is your view of satellites? Do you believe that they exist? My comment ......
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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Satellite Dishes
« by OrbisSphere on March 30, 2019, 10:45:35 PM »...... don't acknowledge the existence of space based satellites so perhaps that should be addressed first? ......
...... operators who track these craft. There's a satellite industry in most all civilised countries of the ............ the ISS as it goes by. You can hire/buy your own satellite uplink/downlink truck, in pretty much any locale ............ the world. You buy a portable satellite rig, such as that used by remote news gathering ............ , and buy/rent airtime on comms satellites to transmit whatever you want to a remote ............ buy tracking telescopes, which can track moving satellites across the sky for you. You can photograph the ............ satellites with the most basic consumer-grade cameras. etc ......
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Flat Earth Community / Re: Satellites.... Troposcatter Technology?
« by Rounder on October 02, 2016, 01:25:00 AM »...... FE would eventually do something with the ISS or satellites to determine their altitudes/locations. My ......
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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Predicting satellite positions with a flat earth model
« by myashtrayiscurved on April 29, 2021, 02:06:24 AM »...... giving confirmation that they are pointing at the satellite. The satellites are geosynchronous, meaning they ............ radio guys who regularly talk by bouncing off a satellite, in fact there have been multiple ham satellites ............ listening (with very directional antennas) to satellites on home made radio rigs. You can download a ............ to show the locations of satellites, you can buy (fairly cheap) a usb receiver, make ............ to see what it really does and examine data from satellites. If I knew the earth was flat, I would prove ......
...... ! I just run into russian Electro-L weather satellite's images, which takes or took every 30 minutes an ............ is a brighter version of your photo: Russian Satellite Photo - December 2015 I can't work out why you ............ is no "fish-eye" photograph - it is taken from a satellite 35,786 kilometres (22,236 mi) above the Earth's ......