The satellite orbits Earth every 48 hours and is in an eccentric orbit (perigee of 7,000 km [4,000 miles] and apogee of 114,000 km [71,000 miles]) that allows long observations of astronomical objects.
All this reached its apogee in 1987, with the sleeve art for Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
A process that began in Docklands in the 1980s has reached its apogee with the Olympic developments.
Its savage violence confronted head-on the aesthetics of impressionism – then at the apogee of Parisian musical fashion – just as the razor-sharp editing between phrases subverted the smooth, seamless flow of the Germanic symphonic tradition with pitiless efficacy.
But for me, and many other part-time pop cultural critics, rock'n'roll as an art form of offence appeared to have reached its apogee in the work of the late GG Allin.
Some said they wanted to watch India play Australia there, which represented either the apogee of global sporting culture, or poor knowledge of India's favourite game.Yet there was a cloud on their western horizon, in the form of Mr Cameron's immigration policy.
The apogee of hubris Mr Reeves hopes came last year, when the press overdosed so hugely on the Lewinsky sex scandal that the public, in revulsion, knocked it off the moral pedestal on which it had supposed it stood.Can it scramble back again?
SULTAN Suleiman the Magnificent, who earned his moniker for taking the Ottoman empire to the apogee of its glory in the mid-16th century, is widely regarded as sacred in Turkey.
Armed with carnations and roses, the gashte ershad rewarded those women sporting the best hijab in town.The apogee of "good hijab" in the Islamic republic is the chador, a long black cloak that reveals only the face.
President Nixon and Henry Kissinger reached their apogee in 1972 with their dramatic and well-televised trip to China, the Moscow summit with its SALT agreement and Mr Kissinger's somewhat premature announcement that peace was at hand in Vietnam.
And since such bacteria need oxygen, their presence suggested that photosynthesising organisms must once have lived on Mars too.This discovery, announced in 1996, was the apogee of Mr Friedmann's long search for life in the most daunting places possible.
