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Clarke Belt
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[aerospace]
An orbit 22,245 miles (35,800 kilometers) above the equator in which a satellite travels at the same speed that the earth rotates. Proposed by the writer and scientist Arthur C. Clarke in 1945. It is also referred to as a geostationary orbit.