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1Satellite radio — is an analogue or digital radio signal that is relayed through one or more satellites and thus can be received in a much wider geographical area than terrestrial FM radio stations. While in Europe many primarily FM radio stations provide an… …
2Satellite phone — A satellite telephone, satellite phone, or satphone is a type of mobile phone that connects to orbiting satellites instead of terrestrial cell sites. Depending on the architecture of a particular system, coverage may include the entire Earth, or… …
3satellite — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ commercial, research ▪ military, reconnaissance, spy ▪ meteorological, weather ▪ communic …
4Solar power satellite — A solar power satellite, or SPS or Powersat, as originally proposed would be a satellite built in high Earth orbit that uses microwave power transmission to beam solar power to a very large antenna on Earth. Advantages of placing the solar… …
5Satellite Business Systems — Satellite Business Systems, abbreviated as SBS , was a company founded by IBM, Aetna, Comsat (and later purchased by MCI), that provided private professional satellite communications through its SBS fleet of FSS geosynchronous satellites, and was …
6Satellite Internet access — Satellite Internet services are used in locations where terrestrial Internet access is not available and in locations which move frequently. Internet access via satellite is available worldwide, including vessels at sea and mobile land… …
7Satellite (disambiguation) — Satellite may refer to:* Artificial satellite, an object placed into orbit by human endeavor ** Satellite imagery, images taken by such satellites * Natural satellite, an object naturally occurring in orbit (E.g.: a moon, a planet, a comet, an… …
8Satellite imagery — consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made by means of artificial satellites. History satellite system.All satellite images produced by NASA are published by Earth Observatory and are freely available to the public. Several other… …
9High altitude nuclear explosion — High altitude nuclear explosions have historically been nuclear explosions which take place above altitudes of 50 km, still inside the Earth s atmosphere. Such explosions have been tests of nuclear weapons, used to determine the effects of the… …
10Satellite formation flying — is the concept that multiple satellites can work together in a group to accomplish the objective of one larger, usually more expensive, satellite. [ [http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect16/Sect16 11.html Remote Sensing tutorial] ] Coordinating smaller… …
