A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication...

Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly...

A communications satellite's transponder is the series of interconnected units that form a communications channel between the receiving and the transmitting...

Iridium Communications Inc. (formerly Iridium Satellite LLC) is a publicly traded American company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, United States. Iridium...

Starlink with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). SpaceX trademarked the name Starlink in the United States for their satellite broadband network; the...

Satellite Communications Co., Ltd. known also as SinoSat is a Chinese company. It provided satellite communications through a pair of communications satellites...

military communications. The first military satellites were photographic reconnaissance missions. Some attempts were made to develop satellite based weapons...

A satellite constellation is a group of artificial satellites working together as a system. Unlike a single satellite, a constellation can provide permanent...

The Communications Technology Satellite (CTS), known as Hermes, was an experimental high-power direct broadcast communications satellite. It was a joint...

the first satellite in history. MARISAT was the first mobile communications satellite, eventually operated by the first privatized satellite communication...

detail the possible use of communications satellites for mass communications. He suggested that three geostationary satellites would provide coverage over...

geosynchronous satellites, particularly communications satellites, but are most commonly used in spacecraft which occupy low Earth orbit missions. Some satellite bus...

The Arab Satellite Communications Organization (often abbreviated as Arabsat) is a communications satellite operator in the Arab World, headquartered in...

Nigerian Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Limited is a company under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy...

Al Yah Satellite Communications Company P.J.S.C. (Yahsat) is a public company listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) and a subsidiary of Mubadala...

Satcom, a portmanteau of satellite communications, was a brand of artificial geo-stationary communications satellites originally developed and operated...

first commercial communications satellite was Telstar 1, built by Bell Labs and launched in July 1962. The idea of a geosynchronous satellite—one that could...

customized satellite communications for the military. This is under the Space Force's new "Proliferated Low Earth Orbit" program for LEO satellites, where...

Asianet Satellite Communications Private Limited, is an Indian multi system operator (MSO). It is the largest cable network services company in Kerala...

The Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) is a United States Space Force satellite constellation that provides the United States with military...

Milestones in the history of communications satellites. Timeline of first artificial satellites by country First images of Earth from space "Appendix B"...

The Anik satellites are a series of geostationary communications satellites launched for Telesat Canada for television, voice and data in Canada and other...

Satellite Communications (Russian: ФГУП «Космическая связь») or Russian Satellite Communications Company is the main state operator of communications...

systems. In 1987, it applied for a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) license with the Federal Communications Commission and was granted access to orbital slot...

refer to dish antennas that send and/or receive signals from communications satellites. Taylor Howard of San Andreas, California, adapted an ex-military...

with a satellite in geostationary orbit, 35,785 km (22,236 mi) above the Earth; the normal orbit of communications satellites, in which the satellite appears...

based on revenues from all customized communications sources and includes operators of teleports and satellite fleets. In order from largest to smallest...

telecommunications, and the first satellite to be placed in this kind of orbit was launched in 1963. Communications satellites are often placed in a geostationary...

Skynet is a family of military communications satellites, now operated by Babcock International on behalf of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence...

The Indian National Satellite System or INSAT, is a series of multipurpose geostationary satellites launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation...