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    Commercializing Low Earth Orbit Relevance to the Science fiction article. My chose to complete my Sci-fi paper as a collection of journal entries from a business man who has to travel to a meeting on the moon. The journals each speak of a different leg of his journey, from the journey up, the accommodations, the meeting, and the return flight. His company deals with satellite orbit altitude rights, and must cooperate with a company based on the moon, who has its own satellites orbiting the moon

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    Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Communication Networks Introduction Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) communication networks are a form of satellite communication where business and industry can transmit data, voice and video around the world through a satellite link. Companies such as Walmart use VSATs to process data to and from their stores nationwide (Lawton, 1994). Understanding the basics of what constitutes a VSAT network and how it operates will establish a basis of knowledge

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    1.Introduction In today’s ultra modern civilization, with features like wireless communications, high definition television broadcasting and Internet access almost in any point of the world the use of the so called telecommunication satellites is unavoidable. The continuous growth of the satellite industry is due to the fact of the many advantages of it, like low costs, big covered areas, possibility of broadcasting and many others. In the present project there will be presented the basic functioning

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    Iridium Communications Satellites James M. Selix American Military University July 31, 2016   Contents Introduction 3 I. Constellation Overview 5 II. Iridium Communications 7 III. Challenges 10 Summary 12 Bibliography 14   Introduction Satellite communication is undoubtedly ingrained into many facets of our global society. It provides an ability to relay voice communications of family members across the globe or transmit data from field locations to headquarters located across oceans. It has

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    DIGITAL SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS By Oyudo Richard Chidiebube (Matriculation Number: 110805082) Department of Computer Sciences University of Lagos (Ref: CSC422/2014-15) ABSTRACT Modern wireless communications technology has almost become synonymous with digital satellite communications. It is hence, a key element in the current era of globalization as it has so largely been adopted as a primary means of communication. This paper attempts to investigate modern digital satellite communications

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    The lunar effect has been a controversy for millions of years. In fact, " no celestial object has inspired more myth and legend than the full moon"(Newton). This shows how the lunar effect has been very controversial. Some reasons that cause the controversy of the lunar effect are the over-reliance of anecdotes instead of scientific evidence, as well as the exaggeration of the media, and the general publics ' inability to define the lunar effect. All of these reasons cause the controversy of the

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    the area of the ellipse. In today’s cyber oriented world, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is gaining widespread application. Recently, it was also misused by NSA for violating the IT security policies. Interestingly, we have already studied the basics in order to study this topic

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    II. Methods of observation A. Surface Measurements Rain gauge observations dating back to 1986 have been used to estimate precipitation rates. Figure 1 shows the distribution of rain gauges around the globe. Precipitation is measured in terms of the total depth of a flat surface area, assuming no water vapor is lost by melting or evaporation. Precipitation depth is measured in inches in the United States and in millimeters for research purposes and most other countries. Frozen precipitation

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    This article is a survey of all aspects of communications high- altitude platforms (HAPs), this balloons and aircraft stationed in the stratosphere between 17 and 22 kilometers. The technique can be considered as a new solution for the provision of telecommunications services. This poll contains some information and benefits . The following table shows the basics of the types of high- altitude platforms and comparison of HAPs, terrestrial networks , satellites , followed by information frequency

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    for the government in the summer of 1966; the DSCS was broken down into three phases. The first phase was to send 26 small communications satellites to orbit with a lifespan of 18 months with one of the 26 satellites lasting 11 years after the launch (DSCS, 1982). Phase two of the DSCS program started shortly after the final launches to orbit of phase one. The first launches of phase two we done in the fall of 1971, phase two DSCS were launched to replace all phase one DSCS. DSCS phase two had

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