High Earth orbit

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What Wikipedia says

A high Earth orbit is a geocentric orbit with an apogee farther than that of the geosynchronous orbit, which is 35,786 km (22,236 mi) away from Earth.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “High Earth orbit”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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