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- See also changes related to Satellite communications, or pages that link to Satellite communications or to this page or whose text contains "Satellite communications".
Parent topics
- Telecommunications [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Satellite orbits [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Radio [r]: Transmission and reception of information, which can be voice, data or imagery over electromagnetic radiation in free space (i.e., wireless). The information is modulated onto a carrier wave [e]
- Laser [r]: Device that produces a very narrow, highly concentrated beam of coherent light, using the principle of amplification of electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation. [e]
Subtopics
Military
- MILSTAR [r]: The operational but obsolescent family of U.S. military communications satellites, optimized for providing survivable low to medium data rate communications under conditions of nuclear and electronic attack [e]
- Defense Satellite Communications System [r]: A currently operational U.S. system of military communications satellites, providing worldwide coverage among fixed and semifixed sites, with moderately high data rates [e]
- Wideband Global Satellite [r]: A new high-capacity satellite system, starting from commercial-off-the-shelf-technology, that the U.S. military began to operate in 2007 [e]
- Global Broadcast Service [r]: A U.S. military communications satellite system, used for the one-way distribution of large files and real-time video (originally from MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles in Bosnia), over Internet Protocol, from a small number of geographic and theater uplinks to several hundred receiving stations [e]
- MQ-8 [r]: A multipurpose unmanned aerial vehicle, in the form of a helicopter with relatively long endurance, whose functions include surveillance and communications relay [e]
- Transformational Satellite System [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rocket science [r]: Variously an incorrect name for various engineering disciplines in dealing with unguided rockets or the rocket engines of more intelligent vehicles, or an ironic description of something very complex or very simple (i.e., "this isn't rocket science") [e]