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Communications satellite

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Ground Infrastructure Summary
996 words, approx. 3 pages
The ground-based infrastructure for a satellite is responsible for a number of support functions, such as commanding the spacecraft, monitoring its health, tracking the spacecraft to determine its present and future positions, collecting the...
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Communications Satellites Summary
702 words, approx. 2 pages
Prior to 1956 it was not possible for people to speak to each other across the Atlantic Ocean except by radiotelephone. If atmospheric conditions were poor, the connection was often interrupted. In 1956 the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable went...
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Communications Satellite Industry Summary
2,738 words, approx. 9 pages
The beginning of the satellite communications era began with the publication of a paper written by Arthur C. Clarke in 1945. The paper described human-tended space stations designed to facilitate communications links for points on Earth. The key to...
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Satellites, Communication Summary
2,730 words, approx. 9 pages
In the most basic terms, the communications satellite industry is made up of those who use satellite transponder time and those who provide or broker satellite time. Satellites are used to transmit all types of video and other data. Uses include news...
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Communications satellite Information
3,078 words, approx. 10 pages
A communications satellite (sometimes abbreviated to comsat) is an artificial satellite stationed in space for the purposes of telecommunications. Modern communications satellites use a variety of orbits including geostationary orbits, Molniya orbits,...
 


News and Journals
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Army
Satellite Communications
10/01/2004: 602 words, approx. 2 pages
The AN/USC-28(V) Satellite Communications Set (Ground) is an advanced spread-spectrum modulation system that operates with defense satellite communications system (DSCS) terminals to provide jam-resistant satellite communication (SATCOM) network control and digital user communications. The AN/USC-28(V) can be configured to accommodate up to 15 user...
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Mining Magazine
Guide to satellite communications.
06/01/2000: 3,098 words, approx. 10 pages
One world, one community -- Station 12[*] demystifies the technology As Victor Eisendoorn, Station 12's (one of the world's leading satcomms service providers to the mining industry) managing director, puts it, "Satellites are making the world a village - or, perhaps, millions of...
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AP News
Scientists reinvent use for satellites
9/10/2007: 673 words, approx. 2 pages
Running out of gas usually means a long walk to a gas station to get more fuel. When a satellite's fuel tank runs dry, though, the mission's over _ or it used to be.Scientists at Purdue University and Lockheed Martin Corp. have devised new techniques...
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AP News
China plans new generation of rockets
6/18/2007: 252 words, approx. 1 pages
China plans to develop a new generation of carrier rockets with a payload capacity large enough to launch a space station, state media reported Monday.China attaches great prestige to its space program, seeing it as a way to validate its claims to being one of...
 


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