Synopsis
Explanation of how a satellite is able to keep orbiting the Earth.
- Programme: In Orbit: How Satellites Rule Our World
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2012
- Physics
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Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
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