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Satellites

Of or relating to any man-made object launched to orbit Earth or another celestial body.

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bit rate

Aerospace; Satellites

The speed of a digital transmission, measured in bits per second.

blanking

Aerospace; Satellites

An ordinary television signal consists of 30 separate still pictures or frames sent every second. They occur so rapidly, the human eye blurs them together to form an illusion of moving pictures. This ...

dBi

Aerospace; Satellites

The dB power relative to an isotropic source.

E3

Aerospace; Satellites

Wide-area digital transmission facility used predominantly in Europe that carries data at a rate of 34.368 Mbit/s.

Ka-Band

Aerospace; Satellites

The frequency range from 18 to 31 GHz.

Ku-Band

Aerospace; Satellites

The frequency range from 10.9 to 17 GHz.

L-Band

Aerospace; Satellites

The frequency range from 0.5 to 1.5 GHz. Also used to refer to the 950 to 1450MHz used for mobile communications.

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