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Astronauts dropped a tool bag during an ISS spacewalk, and you can see it with binoculars (www.space.com)
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[–] NaibofTabr 5 points 2 years ago

Geostationary orbit is at about 35k km, the ISS is at about 400 km, so its definitely not geostationary.