Ground station
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A ground station, Earth station, or Earth terminal is a terrestrial radio station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft, or reception of radio waves from astronomical radio sou
Parkes Observatory pointing toward the Moon, receiving data from Apollo 11 mission back to Earth
A Tier-1 satellite dish (manufactured by Level 3 Communications) in Boise, Idaho
Telecommunications
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Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information over a distance using electrical or electronic means, typically through cables, radio wav
Ground station
…A ground station, Earth station, or Earth terminal is a terrestrial radio station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft (constituting part of the ground segment of the spacecraft system), or reception of radio waves from astronomical radio sources. Ground…
Earth station at the satellite communication facility Raisting Earth Station in Raisting, Weilheim-Schongau, Bavaria, Germany
A replica of one of Chappe's semaphore towers
Optical fibre provides cheaper bandwidth for long-distance communication.
Encoding communication