0 an orbit (= path travelled around an object in space) in which a satellite always remains over the same place on the earth's surface because it moves at the same speed as the earth turns --
At launch, the satellite was carrying of fuel, for raising itself into geostationary orbit, and subsequently operateing there for a planned twelve years.
To broadcast to these latitudes from a geostationary orbit would require considerable power due to the low elevation angles.
The transfer to a graveyard orbit above geostationary orbit requires the same amount of fuel that a satellite needs for approximately three months of stationkeeping.
For satellites in geostationary orbit and geosynchronous orbits, the graveyard orbit is a few hundred kilometers above the operational orbit.
Spacecraft carrying instruments for which an altitude of 36000 km is suitable sometimes use a geostationary orbit.
The upper stage of the rocket underperformed, but the satellite used its significant stationkeeping fuel margin to achieve its operational geostationary orbit.
It would have been capable of moving up to 100 tonnes of mass to a geostationary orbit, but was never flown.
Launched in 1967 it was operated in geostationary orbit, spending most of its operational life at a longitude of 15 degrees west.
