X-Nico

unusual facts about satellite communications



Electron Technologies, Inc.

Electron Technologies, Inc. (ETI) (formerly "Electron Dynamics Division (EDD)", a division of Hughes Aircraft Company), is a high technology company specializing in the manufacture of microwave devices for ground based, airborne and satellite communications and Radar.

Sovremenny-class destroyer

In 2006, the extra spheres (painted white as the mid-2006) added atop of the superstructures of the Chinese ships appearing in latest photographs of the Chinese units have shown that these Chinese ships had been upgraded with the domestic HN-900 Data link (Chinese equivalent of Link 11A/B, to be upgraded) and SATCOM (probably the SNTI-240).


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David L. Lee

In 1981, he joined a company that was acquired by the satellite communications firm Comsat, where he held a variety of executive positions before joining TRW Information Systems Group in 1986.

Development Alternatives Incorporated

In December 2009, Alan Phillip Gross was detained by Cuban authorities after attempting to distribute satellite communications equipment.

Naval Communications Station Irirangi

The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) is now responsible for signals intelligence, with a radio communications intercept station at Tangimoana and a satellite communications intercept station at Waihopai.

Perth International Telecommunications Centre

The Perth International Telecommunications Centre is located in the northeastern Perth suburb of Cullacabardee, and has handled a large percentage of Australian telecommunications company Telstra's satellite communications since its opening in November 1986.

Satellite Business Systems

Satellite Business Systems, abbreviated as SBS, was a company founded by IBM, Aetna, Comsat (and later wholly purchased by IBM and then subsequently sold to MCI), that provided private professional satellite communications through its SBS fleet of FSS geosynchronous satellites, and was the first company to do so.

Short backfire antenna

The SBF antenna was invented by Dr. Hermann W. Ehrenspeck of Air Force Cambridge Research Labs based at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, MA and was used for among other purposes, to provide Tactical Satellite Communications for U.S. Army ground forces due to the SBF's portability and gain.

Signals intelligence operational platforms by nation

According to the academic Teresia Teaiwa, New Zealand, as part of the UKUSA alliance, collected and analyzed low frequency radio and international satellite communications from the South Pacific region.

Tadahiro Sekimoto

In August 1965 he was appointed to a two-year assignment at COMSAT in Washington, DC, where he engaged in research on digital transmission technologies used in satellite communications.

World Area Forecast Center

The U.S. NOAA broadcast system is ISCS (International Satellite Communications System) and mainly covers America and the Pacific Ocean.