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    Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS, pronounced "T-driss") is a network of American communications satellites (each called a tracking and data relay satellite...
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  • Indian Data Relay Satellite System or IDRSS is a planned Indian constellation of Inter-satellite communications satellites. It is planned to initially...
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    tracking and data relay satellite (TDRS) is a type of communications satellite that forms part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) used...
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  • The European Data Relay System (EDRS) system is a European constellation of GEO satellites that relay information and data between satellites, spacecraft...
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    The Indian National Satellite System or INSAT, is a series of multipurpose geostationary satellites launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation...
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    lit. Ray) Satellite Data Relay Network (SDRN), also referred to as Altair and Gelios, is a series of geosynchronous Russian relay satellites, used to transmit...
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    S. Tracking and Data Relay Satellite Artemis (satellite) European Data Relay System Indian Data Relay Satellite System Luch (satellite) (Russia) Tianlian...
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    A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication...
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    everywhere on Earth. Radio cross-links are used between satellites to relay data to the nearest satellite with a connection to an Earth station. Commercial...
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  • Tianlian (category Inter-satellite communications satellites)
    and Data Relay Satellite System - US equivalent Luch - Russian equivalent Indian Data Relay Satellite System - Indian equivalent European Data Relay System...
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    The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based hyperbolic navigation system owned by the United States Space Force and operated by Mission Delta...
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  • spacecraft Indian space missions began in the 1970s, with Soviet assistance in launching the first two satellites. † In case of discrepancy in data between...
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    GOES also offers the Data Collection System, a ground-based meteorological platform satellite data collection and relay service. Other instruments on board...
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  • geosynchronous Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), Supporting ground terminal systems, The Bilateration Ranging and Transponder System (BRTS), Merritt Island...
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    quickly detecting, locating and monitoring maritime activity in the Indian Ocean. The system was developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation...
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    Queqiao-2 relay satellite (Chinese: 鹊桥二号中继卫星; pinyin: Quèqiáo èr hào zhōngjì wèixīng; lit. 'Magpie Bridge 2 relay satellite'), is the second of the communications...
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    a number of ground stations known as gateways that relay Internet data to and from the satellite via radio waves (microwave), and further ground stations...
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    monitored daily from satellite images. The Antarctic ozone hole is mapped from weather satellite data. Collectively, weather satellites flown by the U.S....
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    identification system (AIS) is an automatic tracking system that uses transceivers on ships and is used by vessel traffic services (VTS). When satellites are used...
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    example, gathering of scientific data and radio relay. Technical challenges in the construction of small satellites may include the lack of sufficient...
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    Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) created by the European Union through the European Space Agency (ESA) and operated by the European...
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    broadcast and relay communications satellites, is sometimes called the Clarke orbit. Similarly, the collection of artificial satellites in this orbit...
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    INSAT-3DR (category Weather satellites of India)
    INSAT-3DR is an Indian weather satellite built by the Indian Space Research Organisation and operated by the Indian National Satellite System. It will provide...
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  • extensive system of automatic telephone exchanges connected by modern networks of fiber-optic cable, coaxial cable, microwave radio relay, and a domestic...
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    be as lightweight and robust as possible. Most communication satellites are radio relay stations in orbit and carry dozens of transponders, each with...
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    Meteosat (redirect from MSG satellite)
    Indian Ocean and provided a service relaying data from Argos Data Collection Platforms (DCP), such as buoys, in support of the Tsunami Warning System...
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    comprising analysis of imagery from data from the PLEIADES 1A satellite, of floating objects identified in the southern Indian Ocean. The Operational Search...
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    is closed. The data/messages from the aircraft are transmitted by the aircraft's Satellite Data Unit (SDU) and relayed via satellite to a ground station...
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  • free-drifting, profiling floats that relay the measurement data to agencies, which in turn make available these data publicly within hours of reception...
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  • INSAT-3D (category Weather satellites of India)
    INSAT-3D is a meteorological, data relay and satellite aided search and rescue satellite developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation and was launched...
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