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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Loral Space & Communications Inc. is a Delaware-domiciled satellite communications company headed by Michael B. Targoff. The company was formed in 1996...

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

A personal communications service (PCS) is set of communications capabilities that provide a combination of terminal mobility, personal mobility, and...