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What is an Elliptical Orbit?

Dec 2, 2018

When an object moves around another object in an oval shaped path, it is known to be revolving in an elliptical orbit. All planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun. The Moon also moves around ...read more

What is the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)?

SATCOM Satellite Space

Editorial Team

Dec 4, 2018

The region of space in between the low Earth orbit and the geostationary orbit is called the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). This orbit is at a distance of 2000 to 35786 kms from the earth's surface. This o...read more

What is a Geostationary Orbit?

SATCOM Satellite Space

Editorial Team

Oct 7, 2018

A Geostationary Orbit (GEO) is a circular orbit, located directly above the earth's equator at an altitude of roughly 35,786 kilometers, with zero eccentricity and inclination. There is only one geost...read more

What is the Low Earth Orbit (LEO)?

SATCOM Satellite Space

Editorial Team

Oct 7, 2018

Earth-centered orbits with an altitude of 200 to 2000 kms above the surface of Earth are called as Low Earth orbits (LEO). Objects in these orbitals have an orbital period (i.e. the time taken to orbi...read more

What is a Highly Elliptically Orbit?

SATCOM Satellite Space

Editorial Team

Apr 7, 2020

A Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) is a highly eccentrical orbit with a low perigee (the point of orbit closest to the Earth) altitude of under 1,000 km and a high apogee (the point farthest from the ear...read more

What is a Geosynchronous Orbit?

SATCOM Satellite Space

Editorial Team

Oct 7, 2018

A Geosynchronous Orbit (GSO) is any orbit which has a period equal to the earth's rotational period. The Earth takes 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds to rotate on its axis and this is t...read more

What is a High-Throughput Satellite?

Satellite

Editorial Team

Mar 3, 2021

High-throughput Satellite or HTS is a communication satellite that provides more throughput than conventional communication satellites (Fixed Satellite Service). Higher-throughput refers to a signific...read more

CMOS RF/mmWave Technologies Enable the Transformation of IoT Satellite Communications

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Cormac O'Sullivan

S3semi

The ongoing and predicted explosive growth in IoT is placing ever increasing demands on connectivity – a recent report by Ericsson predicts that there will be over 20 billion connected things in use g...read more

What is a Digital Channel Stacking Switch?

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LEO’s Impact on Testing at the Ground Segment

SATCOM Technologies Wireless Infrastructure

Joakim Espeland, CEO

QuadSAT

The Race to LEO Mega ConstellationsSince 2019, we’ve seen the first satellites of LEO mega constellations being launched into orbit. Reflecting the increase in consumer demand for connectivity i...read more

Towards the Next Wireless Communications Standard - 6G

Dr. Taro Eichler

Rohde & Schwarz

The prospect of offering large contiguous frequency bands to meet the demand for extremely high data transfer rates in the Terabit/s range will drive the next generation of wireless communications - 6...read more

What is Satellite IoT Connectivity?

IoT Satellite

Editorial Team

Apr 12, 2022

Satellite IoT refers to IoT (Internet of Things) services provided by networks of satellites. IoT enables interconnectivity between objects such that they can communicate and relay orders withou...read more

Software defined Radio Use Case for Satellite Industry

Software Defined Radios

Per Vices Team

Per Vices

IntroductionThe satellite industry is one of the giants of the modern world, with applications ranging from cutting-edge orbital telescopes for space exploration to telecommunications and GPS signalin...read more

What are Block Up Converters?

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What frequency does the Iridium satellite system use?

SATCOM Satellite

Editorial Team

Apr 12, 2022

The Iridium satellites are Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites that are owned by Iridium LLC based in the USA. Iridium LLC is a global satellite communications company, providing voice and data servic...read more

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