Satellite Communications
Terms
- Aloha
- analog-to-digital converter
- angle of inclination
- Anik
- antenna
- apogee
- attitude control
- backhaul
- beacon
- bird
- block down converter
- collocation
- communications satellite
- comsat
- DAMA - Demand-Assigned Multiple Access
- digital satellite system
- direct broadcasting satellite
- down converter
- downlink
- duty cycle
- earth station
- echo
- echo canceller
- electromagnetic spectrum
- EMI - electromagnetic interference
- fixed service satellite
- gateway
- GEO
- Geocaching
- geosynchronous satellite
- GOES
- GPS - Global Positioning System
- IMEI- International Mobile Equipment Identity
- IoS
- jammer
- Ku band
- LEO
- LOS - line of sight
- MCPC
- MEO
- NLOS - near line of sight
- perigee
- RF - radio frequency
- satellite broadband
- satellite radio
- SCPC
- Sirius Satellite Radio
- solar fade
- spin stabilization
- super-speed Internet
- teleconference
- telematics
- terrestrial
- transponder
- uplink
- VSAT - very small aperture terminal
- Wide Area Augmentation System
- XM Satellite Radio
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