The Applications Technology Satellites (ATS) were a series of experimental satellites launched by NASA, under the supervision of, among others, Wernher...

Applications Technology Satellite 3, or ATS-3, was a long-lived American experimental geostationary weather and communications satellite, operated by NASA...

18 GPS satellites broadcast L5 signals, which are considered pre-operational prior to being broadcast by a full complement of 24 satellites in 2027....

part of the Applications Technology Satellites Program. Though intended as a communications satellite rather than as a weather satellite, it carried the...

Communications satellites are used for television, telephone, radio, internet, and military applications. Many communications satellites are in geostationary...

ATS-4 (Applications Technology Satellite) also known as ATS-D was a communications satellite launched by NASA on August 10, 1968 from Cape Canaveral through...

ATS-2 (Applications Technology Satellite) was a communications satellite launched by NASA on April 6, 1967, on an Atlas-Agena D rocket from Cape Canaveral...

ATS-6 (Applications Technology Satellite-6) was a NASA experimental satellite, built by Fairchild Space and Electronics Division It has been called the...

launching Starlink satellites in 2019. As of September 2024, the constellation consists of over 7,000 mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit...

Gravity-gradient stabilization for satellites was attempted but unsuccessful on the geosynchronous orbit Applications Technology Satellites ATS-2, ATS-4 and ATS-5...

and 1978 respectively. Prior to the GOES satellites two Synchronous Meteorological Satellites (SMS) satellites had been launched; SMS-1 in May 1974, and...

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, or SSTL, is a company involved in the manufacture and operation of small satellites. A spin-off company of the University...

Both satellites were carried to orbit by Delta 2914 rockets. The program was initiated after the successes achieved by the Applications Technology Satellite...

applications, among others. In current usage, the term remote sensing generally refers to the use of satellite- or aircraft-based sensor technologies...

images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world. Satellite imaging companies sell images by licensing...

or LEO satellites are needed to maintain continuous coverage over an area. This contrasts with geostationary satellites, where a single satellite, at a...

center for satellite technology and applications research. SaTReC, which is located within the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)...

controlling it. The computer was used to record the imagery from the satellites, buffering a single frame from the strips and then storing it out along...

development of related technologies. The agency maintains a constellation of imaging, communications and remote sensing satellites. It operates the GAGAN...

Satellites can be built small to reduce the large economic cost of launch vehicles and the costs associated with construction. Miniature satellites,...

Amphetamine transdermal system, in medicine Applications Technology Satellite, an experimental fleet of satellites launched by NASA Automatic transfer switch...

A satellite navigation or satnav system is a system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geopositioning. A satellite navigation system with global...

and demonstration of applications of space technology in the field of telecommunications, remote sensing, meteorology and satellite navigation (Sat Nav)...

Satellite Internet access is Internet access provided through communication satellites; if it can sustain high speeds, it is termed satellite broadband...

Rohini is a series of satellites launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The Rohini series consisted of four satellites, each of which was...

Galileo-FOC FM34 satellites. The satellites are being built by OHB in Bremen, Germany, with the contribution of Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) in Guildford...

defining technical features of high-throughput satellites. By contrast traditional satellite technology utilizes a broad single beam (usually in the order...

experimental communications satellites. NASA participated in a Canadian satellite venture known initially as "Cooperative Applications Satellite-C" and renamed Hermes...

Another type of geosynchronous orbit used by satellites is the Tundra elliptical orbit. Geostationary satellites have the unique property of remaining permanently...

constellation, a system of 80 satellites: 66 are active satellites and the remaining fourteen function as in-orbit spares. Iridium Satellites are used for worldwide...