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Re:Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission [video] by InclinedPlane on Monday November 25, 2013 @07:09PM (#6798092)
We don't, at least not usually. The mission design is for the satellite to go up to 80,000 km where it will do an orbital plane change then settle back down into a geostationary orbit. It actually uses less energy to do it that way than to just do an apogee raise up to GEO then a plane change.

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