commercial satellite

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meanings of commercial and satellite

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commercial
adjective
uk
/kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/
us
/kəˈmɝː.ʃəl/
related to making money by buying and ...
satellite
noun [C]
uk
/ˈsæt.əl.aɪt/
us
/ˈsæt̬.əl.aɪt/
a device sent up into space to travel around the earth, used for collecting information or communicating by radio, ...

(Definition of commercial and satellite from the Cambridge English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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The advantage of utilising the military satellite system is that coverage is achieved over sea and land, whereas commercial satellite transmissions are generally directed towards land only.
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The transmission of television pictures presented more problems and a number of schemes involving the use of both military and commercial satellite communications facilities were considered.
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However, it has not been mentioned so far in the debate that an experiment is already proceeding with a commercial satellite, which has already been launched and is in operation.
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The arrival of commercial satellite channels fueled a debate on allowing advertising on terrestrial services.
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Integral's customers included government and commercial satellite operators, spacecraft and payload manufacturers and aerospace systems integrators.
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This has pushed the commercial satellite industry to create communications satellite systems that support this need.
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Using a hosted payload on a commercial satellite can reduce both the expense and time required to get communications capacity into space.
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It has also been described as the only software system which controls the download and dissemination of the intercept of commercial satellite trunk communications.
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Each mission is set amidst real world locations in environments created with commercial satellite data.
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The spaceport is intended to be used to launch both human-carrying flights and commercial satellite missions.
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Thus, the ability to legally make derivative products from commercial satellite imagery is minimized.
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There are also private companies that provide commercial satellite imagery.
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Commercial satellite companies do not place their imagery into the public domain and do not sell their imagery; instead, one must be licensed to use their imagery.
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Commercial satellites would thereby benefit from military research and development.
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However, it flowed overseas launch of commercial satellites is also the reason can not gain experience until now launch commercial rockets.
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The commercial satellites were deployed successfully and subsequently propelled into their operational geosynchronous orbits by booster rockets.
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The platform is home to the first hosted payload, a mechanism by which governmental entities can fly modules on commercial satellites.
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Later on, large defense contractors began to develop and operate space launch systems, derived from government rockets and commercial satellites.
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