medium Earth orbit
intermediate circular orbit

The launch successfully placed the satellites into Medium Earth orbit.

It successfully placed the Explorer 38 satellite into medium Earth orbit.

The satellite raised itself into medium Earth orbit using a Star-27 apogee motor.

This also meant that the medium Earth orbit "E" mission could be dispensed with.

For Earth, a semi-synchronous orbit is considered a medium Earth orbit, with a period of just under 12 hours.

The Compass system is proposed to utilize 30 medium Earth orbit satellites and five geostationary satellites.

Unlike geostationary satellites, low and medium Earth orbit satellites do not stay in a fixed position in the sky.

O3b Networks, Ltd. is a next generation network service provider building the world's first medium Earth orbit satellite constellation.

The original Apollo 9 medium Earth orbit test was replaced with a lunar orbital flight, now Apollo 8.

Several hours later, on 15 March, the Briz-M engine cut off prematurely during a burn, leaving the satellite in a medium Earth orbit.

On 1 September, the Korean Central News Agency announced that the satellite had successfully been placed into medium Earth orbit.

Each satellite is a high density passive laser reflector in a very stable medium Earth orbit (MEO).

Medium Earth orbit (MEO)

In 1958 the United States launched Vanguard I into a medium Earth orbit (MEO).

Most of the satellites launched from SLC-5 were placed into low Earth orbits, or low medium Earth orbits.

Global coverage for each system is generally achieved by a satellite constellation of 20-30 medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellites spread between several orbital planes.

The space segment is composed of 24 to 32 satellites in medium Earth orbit and also includes the payload adapters to the boosters required to launch them into orbit.

This is above low Earth orbit and includes satellites in medium Earth orbit, geostationary orbit and some in high Earth orbit.

Medium Earth orbit (MEO) and low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites do not have such great delays.

More than two dozen GPS satellites are in medium Earth orbit, transmitting signals allowing GPS receivers to determine the receiver's location, speed and direction.

It was deployed into a transfer orbit, from which raised itself to a semi-synchronous medium Earth orbit on 19 August, using an onboard Star 37FM apogee motor.

EGP is in a nearly circular orbit at an altitude of approximately 1488 km, close to the (not firmly defined) boundary between low earth orbit and medium earth orbit.

The launch took place from Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and placed USA-232 directly into medium Earth orbit.

Low Earth orbit is any orbit below 2000 km, and Medium Earth Orbit is any orbit higher than that but still below the altitude for geosynchronous orbit at 35786 km.

If the launch had been successful, it would have placed Navstar 7 into a transfer orbit, from which the satellite would have raised itself into medium Earth orbit by means of a Star-27 apogee motor.

(See also: Intermediate circular orbit)

It uses an intermediate circular orbit (ICO) satellite constellation of at least 24 satellites.

It has two independently-developed Galileo signal generation chains and also tests the design of two on-board rubidium atomic clocks and the orbital characteristics of the intermediate circular orbit for future satellites.