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A supersynchronous orbit is any orbit in which the orbital period of a satellite or celestial body is greater than the rotational period of the body which contains the barycenter of the orbit. It will necessarily lie beyond the orbital altitude of synchronous orbits for that celestial body. ==Geocentric supersynchronous orbits== One particular supersynchronous orbital regime of significant economic value to Earth commerce is a band of near-circular Geocentric orbits beyond the Geosynchronous belt—with perigee altitude above , approximately above synchronous altitude〔 (【引用サイトリンク】url=http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/library/USG_OD_Standard_Practices.pdf )〕 —called the geo graveyard belt.〔 〕 The geo graveyard belt orbital regime is valuable as a storage and disposal location for space debris after their useful economic life is completed as Geosynchronous communication satellites.〔 Artificial satellites are left in space because the economic cost of removing the debris would be high, and current public policy does not require nor incentivize rapid removal by the party that first inserted the debris in outer space and thus created a negative externality for others. One public policy proposal to deal with growing space debris is a "one-up/one-down" launch license policy for Earth orbits. Launch vehicle operators would have to pay the cost of debris mitigation. They would need to build the capability into their launch vehicle-robotic capture, navigation, mission duration extension, and substantial additional propellant – to be able to rendezvous with, capture and deorbit an existing derelict satellite from approximately the same orbital plane.〔Frank Zegler and Bernard Kutter, ("Evolving to a Depot-Based Space Transportation Architecture" ), AIAA SPACE 2010 Conference & Exposition, 30 August-2 September 2010, AIAA 2010–8638.〕 An additional common use of supersynchronous orbits are for the launch and transfer orbit trajectory of new commsats intended for geosynchronous orbits. The placement into a ''super''synchronous transfer orbit enables an inclination plane change with a lower subsequent expenditure of propellant by the satellite's kick motor.〔 〕 In this approach, the launch vehicle places the satellite into a ''supersynchronous'' elliptical Geostationary transfer orbit,〔 〕 an orbit with a somewhat larger apogee than the more typical Geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) typically utilized for communication satellites. This technique was used, for example, on the launch and transfer orbit injection of the first two SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 GTO launches in December 2013 and January 2014, SES-8〔 and Thaicom 6 (-apogee),〔 respectively. In both cases, the satellite owner uses the propulsion built into the satellite to reduce the apogee and circularize the orbit to a geostationary orbit. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「supersynchronous orbit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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