satellite earth station equipment

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• Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station — It is to cease satellite operations in 2008.Its first dish, Antenna One (dubbed Arthur ), was built in 1962 to link with Telstar. It was the first open parabolic design and is 25.9 metres in diameter and weighs 1,118 tonnes. Arthur received the… …   Wikipedia

• Earth station — An earth station or ground station is the surface based (terrestrial) end of a communications link to an object in outer space. The space end of the link is occasionally referred to as a space station (though that term often implies a human… …   Wikipedia

• Andover Earth Station — is a satellite earth station located at (coord|44|37|58.0|N|70|41|57.0|W|) in the US state of Maine. The location was selected by AT T in December 1960. The main factors were the topography of the land and the radio interference signal level.… …   Wikipedia

• earth station — /ˈɜθ steɪʃən/ (say erth stayshuhn) noun the ground equipment necessary to communicate through a satellite, which can be receive only or transmit and receive …  

• Satellite truck — A satellite truck is a mobile satellite Earth station typically mounted on a truck chassis as a platform allowing satellite transmission from any location that the vehicle can reach provided a line of site (direct view) to the desired satellite… …   Wikipedia

• Satellite 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 …   Wikipedia

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• Satellite Instructional Television Experiment — The Satellite Instructional Television Experiment or SITE was an experimental satellite communications project launched in India in 1975, designed jointly by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The project made available… …   Wikipedia

• Satellite 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… …   Wikipedia

• Satellite television — List of digital television broadcast standards DVB standards (Europe) DVB S (satellite) DVB S2 DVB T (terrestrial) DVB T2 DVB C …   Wikipedia

• Ground station — The Raisting Satellite Earth Station is the largest satellite communications facility in Germany. A ground station, earth station, or earth terminal is a terrestrial terminal station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft,… …   Wikipedia