The ignorance in this thread is astounding. There are no geosynchronous satellites orbiting the earth? I guess that means I've spent 14 years wasting my time designing and building geosynchronous telecommunications satellites. I've worked on more than 30 different satellites ranging from XM Radio, Sirius Radio, DirecTV, Intelsat, and many more European and Asian satellites. These satellites were mostly launched from either Kazakhstan or French Guiana. None of these satellites have anything to do with NASA. These launch facilities have nothing to do with NASA either. So we are to believe that the Russians and the French are also involved in faking satellite lauches? Also apparently all these satellite customers are paying upwards of $150 million for space junk and receive nothing in return for their investment? Really??