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2. Satellite television - Wikipedia

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   A few satellite TV systems use satellites in a Molniya orbit, a highly elliptical orbit with inclination of +/-63.4 degrees and an orbital period of about twelve hours. Satellite television, like other communications relayed by satellite, starts with a transmitting antenna located at an uplink facility. [ 20 ]

3. Satellite television in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In December 1975, RCA created Satcom 1, the first satellite built especially for use by the then three national television networks (CBS, NBC, and ABC).Later that same year, HBO leased a transponder on Satcom 1 and began transmission of television programs via satellite to cable systems.

4. Satellite Internet access - Wikipedia

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   How satellite internet works. Satellite Internet generally relies on three primary components: a satellite – historically in geostationary orbit (or GEO) but now increasingly in Low Earth orbit (LEO) or Medium Earth orbit MEO) [24] – a number of ground stations known as gateways that relay Internet data to and from the satellite via radio waves (), and further ground stations to serve each ...

5. Amazon Putting Pieces in Place to Offer Satellite Internet ...

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   In a statement on its About Amazon blog last month, Amazon boasted that it's "accelerating satellite production and testing" at its new 172,000-square-foot factory in Kirkland, Washington.

6. How Much Will Amazon’s High-Speed Satellite Internet Cost ...

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   As Bloomberg noted, Project Kuiper is similar to Elon Musk’s Starlink — SpaceX’s satellite internet service — which uses thousands of satellites in low orbit to beam broadband internet to ...

7. Hughes Network Systems - Wikipedia

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   HughesNet was named the Best Rural Internet Provider of 2022 and Best Satellite Internet Provider of 2022 by U.S. News & World Report 360 Reviews. [ 49 ] The long distance to the geosynchronous orbit used by HughesNet increases latency to over 600 ms, over 10 times more than terrestrial or low Earth orbit systems like Starlink , rendering it ...