Satellites

Satellites

Of or relating to any man-made object launched to orbit Earth or another celestial body.

Industry: Aerospace

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Simplex transmission

Aerospace; Satellites

Capability for transmission in only one direction between sending station and receiving station.

Satellite

Aerospace; Satellites

A sophisticated electronic communications relay station orbiting 22,237 miles above the equator moving in a fixed orbit at the same speed and direction of the earth (about 7,000 mph east to west).

Satellite news gathering (SNG)

Aerospace; Satellites

The use of mobile communications equipment for the purpose of worldwide newscasting. SNG usually comes with a transportable uplink truck.

Rain outage

Aerospace; Satellites

Loss of signal at Ku or Ka Band frequencies due to absorption and increased sky-noise temperature caused by heavy rainfall.

An electronic device which enables a particular satellite signal to be separated from all others being received by an earth station, and converts the signal format into a format for video, voice or ...

Snow

Aerospace; Satellites

A form of noise picked up by a television receiver caused by a weak signal. Snow is characterised by alternate dark and light dots appearing randomly on the picture tube. To eliminate snow, a more ...

Solar outage

Aerospace; Satellites

Solar outages occur when an antenna is looking at a satellite, and the sun passes behind or near the satellite and within the field of view of the antenna. This field of view is usually wider than ...