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The first and historically most important application for communication satellites was in intercontinental...
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MILSTAR
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satellite
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telecommunications
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geostationary orbits
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Molniya orbits
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elliptical orbits
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polar
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point-to-point
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microwave radio relay
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submarine communication cables
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broadcasting
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Geostationary Orbit
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Geosynchronous orbit
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radio
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transmitter
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Sputnik 1
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Project SCORE
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1958
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store and forward
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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NASA
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Echo satellite
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1960
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PET film
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Courier 1B
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Philco
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Telstar
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AT&T
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Bell Telephone Laboratories
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General Post Office
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French National PTT
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Cape Canaveral
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July 10
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1962
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orbit
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equator
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Hughes
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Syncom 2
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July 26
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1963
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Geostationary orbit
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Geostationary orbit
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geostationary orbit
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Arthur C. Clarke
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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Herman Potočnik
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Herman Noordung
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1945
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Wireless World
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artificial satellites
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inventor
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Syncom 3
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August 19
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1964
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longitude
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International Date Line
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1964 Summer Olympics
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Tokyo, Japan
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United States
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Pacific Ocean
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Syncom 3
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Intelsat I
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April 6
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1965
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Atlantic Ocean
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November 9
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1972
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North America
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Anik A1
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Telesat Canada
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United States
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Westar 1
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Western Union
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April 13
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1974
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December 19
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1974
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three-axis stabilized
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Symphonie
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SES Americom
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Satcom 1
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cable TV
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TBS Superstation
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HBO
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CBN
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ABC Family
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The Weather Channel
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cable TV
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headends
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ABC
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NBC
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CBS
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Satcom 1
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transponders
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Hughes Space and Communications
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Boeing Satellite Development Center
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Space Systems/Loral
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Lockheed Martin
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Northrop Grumman
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Thales Alenia Space
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Spacebus
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EADS Astrium
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Low Earth orbit
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Low Earth orbit
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Low Earth Orbit
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satellite constellation
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satellite phone
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Iridium
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Globalstar
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Teledesic
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Microsoft
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Paul Allen
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Canada
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CASSIOPE
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store and forward
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Orbcomm
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Molniya orbit
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Molniya orbit
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multipathing
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Molniya
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April 23
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1965
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transmission
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signal
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uplink
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downlink
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Siberia
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Norilsk
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Khabarovsk
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Magadan
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Vladivostok
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1967
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system
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network
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satellite television
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Orbita
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Russia
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Iridium
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long distance
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Public Switched Telephone Network
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telephone calls
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land line
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earth station
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submarine communications cables
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fiber-optics
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Ascension Island
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Saint Helena
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Diego Garcia
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Easter Island
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landline
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South America
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Africa
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Canada
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China
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Russia
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Australia
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Antarctica
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Greenland
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Satellite phones
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teleport
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Public Switched Telephone Network
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Satellite television
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bandwidth
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Astra
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Eutelsat
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Hotbird
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Fixed Service Satellite
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C band
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live shots
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backhauls
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distance learning
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Videoconferencing
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cable television headends
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Free-to-air
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Intelsat Americas 5
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AMC 3
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North America
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transponders
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Dish Network
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SuperDish
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FCC
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HDTV
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Direct broadcast satellite
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K
u
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Direct-To-Home
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DirecTV
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DISH Network
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United States
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Bell TV
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Star Choice
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Canada
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Freesat
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Sky Digital
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Republic of Ireland
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New Zealand
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linear polarization
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circular polarization
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TVRO
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Primestar
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when?
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K
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SPACEWAY-1
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Anik F2
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NASA
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GPS
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recreational vehicle
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JetBlue Airways
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LiveTV
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Amateur radio
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OSCAR
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repeaters
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UHF
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VHF
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antennas
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Yagis
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AX.25
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Satellite Internet access
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Internet
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broadband
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military communications
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Global Command and Control Systems
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MILSTAR
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FLTSATCOM
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United States
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NATO
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United Kingdom
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Soviet Union
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X-band
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UHF
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Broadcasting Satellite (Japanese)
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Commercialization of space
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COMSAT
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Data Transmission Network
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DBS
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DVB
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DigiCipher 2
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DSCS
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free-space optical communications
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FLTSATCOM
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Intelsat
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Intersputnik
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List of communications satellite firsts
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List of communication satellite companies
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List of orbits
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MILSTAR
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Military Strategic and Tactical Relay satellite
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Moonbounce
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Reconnaissance satellite
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PanAmSat
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Satellite dish
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Satmodem
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Satellite radio
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Spacebus
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Symphonie
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Submarine communications cable
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Telstar
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VSAT
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