Explanation:

Justification & Learning: Most of the communication satellites today are placed in a geostationary orbit. Geostationary satellites in orbits circle the Earth at the same rate as the Earth spins.

• The Earth takes nearly 24 hours to make one full revolution around the earth allowing them to observe a location constantly on earth since earth too rotates at the same speed. So based on Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion, this would put the satellite at approximately 35,790 km above the Earth.

• The satellites are located near the equator since at this latitude there is a constant force of gravity from all directions. At other latitudes, the bulge at the centre of the Earth would pull the satellite down