Satellites

Satellites

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

Industry: Aerospace

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Satellites

Broad beam

Aerospace; Satellites

A single large circular beam that covers a large geographic area.

Bandwidth

Aerospace; Satellites

The range of frequencies used for a particular radio transmission (e.g. 36 MHz). It is the difference between the lowest and highest transmission frequencies used by a signal.

Baseband

Aerospace; Satellites

The range of frequencies inherent in a source of information.

Baud

Aerospace; Satellites

The rate of data transmission based on the number of signal elements or symbols transmitted per second. Today most digital signals are characterised in bits per second.

Apogee kick motor (AKM)

Aerospace; Satellites

Rocket motor fired to circulate orbit and deploy satellite into geostationary orbit.

Attenuation

Aerospace; Satellites

The measure of the weakening of a signal (loss) that occurs as it travels through a device or transmission medium (e.g. radio waves through the atmosphere, an electrical signal through a cable). ...