The key property of a satellite orbiting precisely 35, 786 km (22, 240 miles) above the equator is its speed, which mimics therotationoftheEarth below.
"Any worldly event that involves the movement of mass affects the Earth's rotation, " Benjamin Fong Chao, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said while explaining the phenomenon in 2005.