Collocations with satellite
These are words often used in combination with satellite.
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artificial satellite
It allows crew members to contact starships in orbit without relying on an artificial satellite to relay the signal.
commercial satellite
Clearly, the prospects for a commercial satellite system must depend on its continuous use for international telegraph and telephone services rather than for television relaying.
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infrared satellite
The center of the storm promptly became ill-defined on infrared satellite imagery, simultaneously recurving to the west.
orbiting satellite
In an astounding cinematic ellipsis the bone instantly morphs into an orbiting satellite, and three million years of hominid evolution is written off in one frame of film.
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satellite broadcaster
If he is a satellite broadcaster, he is hardly going to broadcast if he does not have any revenue coming in.
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satellite broadcasting
By 2005, thanks to fiber optics and digital satellite broadcasting, many households received several hundred channels.
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satellite campus
One hundred families from the main campus were asked to make a one-year commitment to begin the satellite campus.
satellite feed
The satellite feed, however, would provide every regional station with the sort of service that they need.
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satellite image
Application of image crosscorrelation to the measurement of glacier velocity using satellite image data.
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satellite imagery
Microenvironmental variation within the wetlands was elucidated and the different vegetation associations identified in the satellite imagery.
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satellite link
They would be lost in a trial by satellite link with a 2.5 second delay.
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satellite measurements
And a method for determining the helicity density of the plasma sheet from the satellite measurements must be developed.
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satellite orbit
The table is sorted according to the time of the first launch that achieved satellite orbit insertion.
satellite photographs
We even have satellite photographs to prove this premise.
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satellite photography
It will make it even more difficult if we have to rely entirely on satellite photography.
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satellite picture
Because of this temperature difference, warmth and moisture are transported upward, condensing into vertically oriented clouds (see satellite picture) that produce snow showers.
satellite provider
Networks that maintain a home shopping or infomercial format may instead pay the station or cable/satellite provider, in a brokered carriage deal.
satellite radio
We recognise the case for a complementary and alternative satellite radio navigation system.
satellite receiver
This necessitates either having an analog satellite receiver or a digital satellite receiver.
satellite tracking
Consider a floating sensor attached to the bottom by a flexible cable used to measure vertical displacements of water surface (or perhaps using satellite tracking).
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satellite transmission
Most of the world is also covered in stereo by satellite transmission.
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spy satellite
The base is guarding a new spy satellite meant to launch the next day.
weather satellite
If imagery is zoomed in at an adequate range, actual weather satellite data can be superimposed.
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past simple and past participle of overwhelm
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