content: The space station is at about 250nm... (Low earth orbit) Geosynchronous, where this intelsat bird is at, is roughly 25,000nm. Sorry, the thought that pajeet junk did this doesn't pass a sniff test at all. That's too much additional enery in a specific direction to have been related.  The difference in energy is about double all of the energy from the ground to leo to get something into geo.  But, yes, fuck India for shitting up space.