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    A satellite or artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body. Satellites have a variety of uses...
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    Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly...
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    A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication...
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    The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated...
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    Aryabhata was India's first satellite, named after the astronomer. It was launched on 19 April 1975 from Kapustin Yar, a Soviet rocket launch and development...
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    Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by Starlink Services, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of American aerospace company SpaceX, providing...
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    A natural satellite is, in the most common usage, an astronomical body that orbits a planet, dwarf planet, or small Solar System body (or sometimes another...
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    A satellite navigation or satnav system is a system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geopositioning. A satellite navigation system with global...
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  • A satellite state or dependent state is a country that is formally independent but under heavy political, economic, and military influence or control...
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    Moon (redirect from Luna (satellite))
    The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It orbits at an average distance of 384,400 km (238,900 mi), about 30 times the diameter of Earth. Tidal forces...
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    Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites...
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  • mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views...
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    The Satellite Pro (also formerly the Satellite) is a line of laptop computers designed and manufactured by Dynabook Inc. of Japan, which was formerly Toshiba's...
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  • communication satellite. The term most commonly means a dish which receives direct-broadcast satellite television from a direct broadcast satellite in geostationary...
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  • October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017. Tim Folger, "New moon – Russian satellite acts as a mirror to light remote areas", Discover, Jan, 1994 (web version...
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    A satellite telephone, satellite phone or satphone is a type of mobile phone that connects to other phones or the telephone network by radio link through...
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  • "lily"), also known as Broadcasting Satellite or BS, was a series of Japanese direct broadcast satellites. The first satellite of this series, called BSE or...
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    Satellite Internet access is Internet access provided through communication satellites; if it can sustain high speeds, it is termed satellite broadband...
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    XM Satellite Radio (XM) was one of the three satellite radio (SDARS) and online radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM...
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    A weather satellite or meteorological satellite is a type of Earth observation satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the...
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  • Satellite radio is defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s ITU Radio Regulations (RR) as a broadcasting-satellite service. The satellite's...
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  • Satellite DNA consists of very large arrays of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA. Satellite DNA is the main component of functional centromeres, and form...
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    The Plymouth Satellite is a mid-size automobile introduced in the 1965 model year as the top trim model in Plymouth's "B" platform Belvedere line. Available...
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    briefly captured by telescopes. All together, Jupiter's moons form a satellite system called the Jovian system. The most massive of the moons are the...
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    The NES Satellite is a Nintendo Entertainment System multiplayer adaptor accessory (multitap), created by Nintendo and released in 1989 as a part of the...
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    A satellite city or satellite town is a smaller municipality or settlement that is part of (or on the edge of) a larger metropolitan area and serves as...
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    A satellite village is a term for one or more settlements that have arisen within the outskirts of a larger one. Normally people would live in a satellite...
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  • Satellite Football Club is a Guinean football club whose team plays in the Ligue 1 Pro. Their home games are played at the 25,000-capacity Stade 28 Septembre...
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  • Rohini is a series of satellites launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The Rohini series consisted of four satellites, each of which was...
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  • Satellite tracker or satellite tracking may refer to: GPS tracking unit, that uses satellite navigation Satellite watching, hobby of tracking artificial...
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