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    NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that launched the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) in September 1993. The flight also featured the...
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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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    622 Mbit/s, over NASA's Advanced Communication Technology Satellite (ACTS). The Advanced Communications Technology Satellite itself, built and operated...
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    Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) is a constellation of communications satellites operated by the United States Space Force. They are used to relay...
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  • voice or wireless data communications systems, typically incorporating digital technology, providing services similar to advanced cellular mobile or paging...
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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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    Application Technology Satellite (ATS) and Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) programs prototyped many of the technologies used on TDRSS...
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    responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency...
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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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  • The Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) program was a United States Department of Defense (DOD) program sponsored by the U.S. Air Force...
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    malfunctioned. The second use of a TOS was the deployment of the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite from Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-51. This...
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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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  • Scotland Communications and television Advance Community Television Station, a television station in Trinidad and Tobago Advanced Communications Technology Satellite...
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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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    Defense mission, spy satellite deployment STS-51 Discovery — September 1993 — Commander — Advanced Communications Technology Satellite deployment STS-105...
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    "ARTEMIS (Advanced Relay and Technology Mission Satellite)". www.eoportal.org. Retrieved 2023-03-14. "EDRS (European Data Relay Satellite) Constellation...
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    launched the Mars Observer from a Titan rocket and the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite in September 1993. In 1990, Voss was selected by NASA...
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    Committee of the United States House of Representatives (3 January 1999). "Satellite Launches in the PRC: Loral". U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial...
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    During the ten-day flight, the crew of five deployed the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) and the Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme...
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  • servicing satellites, satellite products, and related services. DigitalGlobe and MDA Holdings Company merged to become Maxar Technologies on October...
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    TrellisWare Technology, in 2000. The self-funded company focuses on developing communications and signal processing systems. The acquisition of the satellite networking...
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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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    support to the on-orbit Milstar Communications satellite constellation. In addition, the group executes the $6.7B Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF)...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Carl E. Walz
    five-member crew deployed the U.S. Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS), and the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS) with NASA and German scientific...
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    naval signalling, terrestrial microwave, tropospheric scatter, satellite communications systems and equipment, surveillance and signal analysis, security...
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    The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is a national research university located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST...
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    which the crew deployed the U.S. Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS/TOS), and the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (ORFEUS/SPAS) carrying U.S. and...
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    ATS-1 (Applications Technology Satellite 1), also designated ATS-B or Advanced Tech. Sat. 1, was an experimental geostationary satellite, launched in 1966...
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  • "Entropic Communications Acquires Direct Broadcast Satellite Intellectual Property from PLX Technology". Press Release PLX Technologies. PLX Technologies. Retrieved...
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