Satellites

Satellites

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

Industry: Aerospace

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Audio subcarrier

Aerospace; Satellites

The carrier between 5 MHz and 8 MHz containing audio (or voice) information inside of a video carrier.

Spiderman

Aerospace; Satellites

Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko.

Wide area DGPS

Aerospace; Satellites

Also called WADGPS, a type of DGPS aims to overcome the baseline distance limitation by generating corrections for users over a large portion of the earth. It has multiple reference stations to ...

A rival global positioning system developed by China that competes against the U.S. GPS satellites to provide navigation and positioning services. Beidou is the Chinese name for the North Star which ...

Synchronous orbit

Aerospace; Satellites

A circular orbit around the Earth's equator, at a distance of 6.6 Earth radii. At this distance the orbital period is 24 hours, keeping the satellite anchored above the same spot on Earth. This ...

Space probe

Aerospace; Satellites

Is a scientific space exploration mission in which a spacecraft leaves Earth and explores space. Space probes are a form of robotic spacecraft; that are unmanned. Probes may approach the Moon, or ...

Galileo

Aerospace; Satellites

Galileo is the name of the European satellite navigation system which has been under development by the European Union and the European Space Agency (ESA) since 2002. It should be operational from ...