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  2. Link budget - Wikipedia

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    Link budget. A link budget is an accounting of all of the power gains and losses that a communication signal experiences in a telecommunication system; from a transmitter, through a communication medium such as radio waves, cable, waveguide, or optical fiber, to the receiver. It is an equation giving the received power from the transmitter ...

  3. Starlink - Wikipedia

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    Status. Active since 2019 ; 5 years ago(2019) Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by Starlink Services, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of American aerospace company SpaceX, [ 3 ] providing coverage to over 100 countries and territories. It also aims to provide global mobile broadband.

  4. Paksat-MM1 - Wikipedia

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    It was provided by Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (AsiaSat), a Hong Kong –based satellite operator. [1] Initially stationed at 122° East longitude, Paksat-MM1 was later relocated to 38.2° East to better serve Pakistan and the surrounding region. During most of its operational life at 122° East, it provided fixed satellite ...

  5. Path loss - Wikipedia

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    Path loss is a major component in the analysis and design of the link budget of a telecommunication system. This term is commonly used in wireless communications and signal propagation. Path loss may be due to many effects, such as free-space loss, refraction, diffraction, reflection, aperture-medium coupling loss, and absorption. Path loss is ...

  6. Very low Earth orbit - Wikipedia

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    Very low Earth orbit. Very low Earth orbit is a range of orbital altitudes below 400 km (250 mi), and is of increasing commercial importance in a variety of scenarios and for multiple applications, in both private and government satellite operations. Applications include earth observation, radar, infrared, weather, telecommunications, and rural ...

  7. ICUBE-Q - Wikipedia

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    2 Cameras of one mega pixels (1280 × 720) mounted on opposite X panels. ICUBE-Q or ICUBE-QAMAR (Urdu: آئی کیوب-قمر) is a Pakistani lunar remote sensing observation nanosatellite and is one of the four international payloads of the Chang'e 6 lunar sample-return mission. It is a joint venture between the Institute of Space Technology ...

  8. 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) [20] – 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 ...

  9. Wideband Global SATCOM - Wikipedia

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    The Wideband Global SATCOM system (WGS) is a high capacity United States Space Force satellite communications system planned for use in partnership by the United States Department of Defense (DoD), Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) and the Australian Department of Defence. [1] The system is composed of the Space Segment satellites ...