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Aerospace glossary

Medium Earth orbit

Also called MEO

Orbits between low Earth orbit and geostationary altitude, roughly 2,000–35,786 km. Navigation constellations such as GPS and Galileo fly here, at ≈20,000–23,000 km.

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