Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Geo stationary

Also known as geosynchronous.The type of orbit required to keep communications satellite in a fixed position relative to the earth .The sattelite angular rate and direction of rotation are matched to those of the earth and the satellite irbits the earth every 24 hours at about 36,000 kilometers(22,350 miles)
Giga:A prefix meaning 1 billion meaning oe 10
Giga bit: Abbreviated Gbit.Useually 1,073,824 binary digits or bits of data sometimes used as equivalent to one billion bits.
Gigabyte:Abbreviated GB.Strictly speaking one billion bytes however in computing in which bytes are most often counted in powers of 2 a gigabyte becomes 2 or 1,073,741824 bytes.
Hard copy:computer output printed on paper to form a permanant record

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