Do satellites have different levels for direction they are traveling?
Like distance from the Earth. And do some of them "sit" in one place, like always over North America?
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Like distance from the Earth. And do some of them "sit" in one place, like always over North America?
Wait till you hear about legrange points. These are points where 2 massive object (like the sun and earth) create a sort of pocket where a satellite can orbit "nothing". I have massively simplyfied it, off course.
Heard of them (UFOs sub, lots of heavy reading, skimming the physics parts) but never knew what they were. That's a great understandable explanation, and fascinating, thanks.
The JWST actually sits at a Lagrange Point (L2)
There is a good write up including video and animations to explain what where and why https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html