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(chiefly UK, Australia) A rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc.
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A GPS signal consisting of coarse orbit and status information for each satellite in the constellation.
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Former name of the International Space Station.
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(space flight, communication) The (typically) large-diameter antenna used for receiving and transmitting radio frequency energy containing the data used in communication satellites, especially in the geostationary belt. For a comsat, this is typically a large reflective dish antenna; sometimes called an array.
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an artificial satellite that is designed to carry humans or other organisms
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Something shaped like the letter C, such as a cee spring.
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Alternative form of comsat [A communications satellite.]
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A communications satellite.
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A standard, low-cost miniature satellite formed of small cubes.
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(radio) A paraboloid antenna.
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(telecommunications) an Earth-based radio station which relays signals to and from communications satellites.
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An artificial satellite with a mass of under 100 grams
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A geostationary satellite
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Availability of a satellite from the ground.
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A satellite that orbits the earth, especially one that maintains communication with a receiver on earth.
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(by extension) A device that uses any global positioning system satellite network.
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A satellite designed to measure ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics
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International Marine Satellite.
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An artificial satellite in low-earth orbit operating by a number of cooperating space programmes.
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The International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
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Any of several satellites used to gather data about the Earth's surface resources.
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Abbreviation of length. [The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.]
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Initialism of Late Heavy Bombardment. [A prolonged event believed to have occurred around the Hadean-Archean boundary, during which an unusually high number of asteroids hit the terrestrial planets and their moons.]
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(initialism) low ionization nuclear emission line region
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Alternative form of m (abbreviation of "mile", etc) [(obsolete) thousand]
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(space science) An artificial satellite between 10 and 100 kilograms in mass.
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(telecommunications) A small-sized satellite dish.
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(space science) an artificial satellite massing between 100 and 500 kilograms
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The use of minisupercomputers.
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A very small spacecraft or satellite
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(transport, military, Internet) Navigation. Often used attributively, as in nav beacon.
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(countable, medicine) A non-invasive ventilation machine, a NIV device. Abbreviation of non-invasive ventilator.
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A temporary orbit used during the launch of a satellite or space probe, before the final trajectory is set.
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An artificial satellite with a wet mass between 0.1 and 1 kilograms.
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A standard miniature space satellite which is similar to a CubeSat, but one quarter the size.
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A type of artificial satellite that is a power station, which generates power that is beamed to consumers.
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Alternative form of Rician fading [The partial cancellation of a radio signal by itself.]
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Alternative spelling of satcoms [satellite communications]
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satellite communications
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A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
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The general model on which multiple-production satellite spacecraft are often based.
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A parabolic antenna designed to receive microwaves from communications satellites, which transmit data transmissions or broadcasts, such as satellite television.
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A navigation device that implements access to such a system, having satellite signal receivers to access the satellite network.
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A very small (natural) satellite.
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An artificial satellite that needs continuous thrust to maintain altitude
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Synonym of balloon satellite
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(informal, chiefly science fiction) satellite feed
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(informal) satellite link
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(informal) A satellite navigation system.
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(countable) An Earth-orbiting satellite used to intercept signals.
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A family of United Kingdom military communications satellites.
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A miniature artificial satellite.
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A crewed or robotic spacecraft designed to orbit the Earth
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(telecommunications) A satellite signal that is specially concentrated in power (i.e. sent by a high-gain antenna) so that it will cover only a limited geographic area on Earth.
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(dated) Any artificial satellite.
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An artificial space satellite used for reconnaissance or intelligence gathering.
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(Britain) A flat, diamond-shaped aerial (antenna) for receiving satellite television signals; it became obsolete in the 1990s.
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A hypothetical type of artificial satellite that uses light sails to maneuver.
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Alternative form of subsatellite [(aerospace) A component of a satellite that is released once in orbit]
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Abbreviation of subsatellite. [(aerospace) A component of a satellite that is released once in orbit]
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(aerospace) A component of a satellite that is released once in orbit
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A synchronous communication satellite.
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Remote guidance, as of a missile or spacecraft.
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A satellite ground station.
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A telecommunications satellite.
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(informal, dated) A telecommunications satellite
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a particular brand of GPS system.
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A satellite used to measure surface winds.
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An out-of-control communications satellite which cannot maintain its original orbit but remains capable of re-transmitting any signal it receives.
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