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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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  • A communications satellite's transponder is the series of interconnected units that form a communications channel between the receiving and the transmitting...
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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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    military communications. The first military satellites were photographic reconnaissance missions. Some attempts were made to develop satellite based weapons...
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    Skynet is a family of military communications satellites, now operated by Babcock International on behalf of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence...
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    detail the possible use of communications satellites for mass communications. He suggested that three geostationary satellites would provide coverage over...
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    The Arab Satellite Communications Organization (often abbreviated as Arabsat) is a communications satellite operator in the Arab World, headquartered in...
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    Starlink with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). SpaceX trademarked the name Starlink in the United States for their satellite broadband network; the...
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    The Communications Technology Satellite (CTS), known as Hermes, was an experimental high-power direct broadcast communications satellite. It was a joint...
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    the first satellite in history. MARISAT was the first mobile communications satellite, eventually operated by the first privatized satellite communication...
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  • Nigerian Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Limited is a company under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy...
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  • Milestones in the history of communications satellites. Timeline of first artificial satellites by country First images of Earth from space "Appendix B"...
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  • Iridium Communications Inc. (formerly Iridium Satellite LLC) is a publicly traded American company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, United States. Iridium...
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  • Satellite Communications Co., Ltd. known also as SinoSat is a Chinese company. It provided satellite communications through a pair of communications satellites...
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    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...
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    Satcom, a portmanteau of satellite communications, was a brand of artificial geo-stationary communications satellites originally developed and operated...
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    The Anik satellites are a series of geostationary communications satellites launched for Telesat Canada for television, voice and data in Canada and other...
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  • customized satellite communications for the military. This is under the Space Force's new "Proliferated Low Earth Orbit" program for LEO satellites, where...
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    geosynchronous satellites, particularly communications satellites, but are most commonly used in spacecraft which occupy low Earth orbit missions. Some satellite bus...
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    The Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) is a United States Space Force satellite constellation that provides the United States with military...
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    A satellite constellation is a group of artificial satellites working together as a system. Unlike a single satellite, a constellation can provide permanent...
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    Asianet Satellite Communications Private Limited, is an Indian multi system operator (MSO). It is the largest cable network services company in Kerala...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • based on revenues from all customized communications sources and includes operators of teleports and satellite fleets. In order from largest to smallest...
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  • refer to dish antennas that send and/or receive signals from communications satellites. Taylor Howard of San Andreas, California, adapted an ex-military...
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  • A personal communications service (PCS) is set of communications capabilities that provide a combination of terminal mobility, personal mobility, and...
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  • Satellite Communications (Russian: ФГУП «Космическая связь») or Russian Satellite Communications Company is the main state operator of communications...
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  • Loral Space & Communications Inc. is a Delaware-domiciled satellite communications company headed by Michael B. Targoff. The company was formed in 1996...
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  • China Satellite Communications Co., Ltd. known as China Satcom is a Chinese aerospace company that provides services via satellites. The company was a...
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