1.   This image was collected by the European geostationary meteorological satellite Meteosat, and acquired by the South African ground receiving station near Pretoria.

2.   Among those customers is VisionStar, which wants Orbital to build two geostationary satellites for high-speed Internet connections and broadcasting.

3.   All these companies use geostationary satellites.

4.   Airliners, of course, are anything but stationary, so a geostationary satellite becomes a moving target.

5.   But American Mobile Satellite Corp., a consortium that operates the lone commercial geostationary satellite over the United States, has dragged its feet, Noreen said.

6.   For the first time this decade, the United States has two modern geostationary satellites in orbit above the earth.

7.   Further opportunities will come in supplying communications systems and geostationary satellites required for the navigation systems.

8.   Intelsat, PanAmSat, Eutelsat and Loral Space and Communications are all large players in the profitable geostationary satellite sector.

9.   Its signals already are available nationwide, via two geostationary satellites launched last spring from the South Pacific.

10.   Meteorologists suffered partial blindness on Tuesday when a system failure occurred on the geostationary satellite that covers eastern North America, South America and the western Atlantic.