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76 relations: AirTouch, Alcatel-Lucent, Attitude control, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Base station, Bernard L. Schwartz, Bit rate, Broadband Global Area Network, Cannes Mandelieu Space Center, Chairman, Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code, Circuit Switched Data, Code-division multiple access, Covington, Louisiana, DASA, Ericsson, Ericsson R290, Federal Communications Commission, Fregat, Gateway (telecommunications), Geolocation, Gonets, Graveyard orbit, GSM, High-yield debt, Hyundai, Initial public offering, Inmarsat, Internet, Iridium Communications, Iridium satellite constellation, Irwin M. Jacobs, IS-41, Limited partnership, Loral Corporation, Loral Space & Communications, Low Earth orbit, Mobile-satellite service, NASDAQ, New York City, North American Numbering Plan, O3b Networks, Orbcomm, Orbital inclination, Packet switching, Pendrell Corporation, Public switched telephone network, Qualcomm, Radio repeater, Rake receiver, ..., Rome, Roscosmos, S band, San Diego, Satellite constellation, Satellite phone, SkyWave Mobile Communications, SMS, Soft handover, South Atlantic Anomaly, Soyuz-2, Spot beam, SPOT Satellite Messenger, Subscriber identity module, Teledesic, Telephone call, Telephone number, Telephone numbering plan, Telit, TerreStar Corporation, Text messaging, Thales Alenia Space, Thuraya, Transponder (satellite communications), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Vodafone. Expand index (26 more) »
AirTouch
AirTouch Communications was a U.S.-based wireless telephone service provider, created as a spin-off on Pacific Telesis on April 1, 1994.
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Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent S.A. was a French global telecommunications equipment company, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
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Attitude control
Attitude control is controlling the orientation of an object with respect to an inertial frame of reference or another entity like the celestial sphere, certain fields, and nearby objects, etc.
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Baikonur Cosmodrome
Baikonur Cosmodrome (translit; translit) is a spaceport located in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to Russia.
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Base station
Base station (or base radio station) is – according to the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Radio Regulations (RR) – a "land station in the land mobile service." The term is used in the context of mobile telephony, wireless computer networking and other wireless communications and in land surveying.
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Bernard L. Schwartz
Bernard Leon Schwartz (born December 13, 1925) was the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Loral Space & Communications for 34 years, Chairman and CEO of K&F Industries, Inc., and president and CEO of Globalstar Telecommunications.
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Bit rate
In telecommunications and computing, bit rate (bitrate or as a variable R) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time.
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Broadband Global Area Network
The Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) is a global satellite network with telephony using portable terminals.
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Cannes Mandelieu Space Center
The Cannes Mandelieu Space Center is an industrial plant dedicated to spacecraft manufacturing, located in both the towns of Cannes and Mandelieu in France.
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Chairman
The chairman (also chairperson, chairwoman or chair) is the highest officer of an organized group such as a board, a committee, or a deliberative assembly.
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Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code
Chapter 11 is a chapter of Title 11, the United States Bankruptcy Code, which permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States.
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Circuit Switched Data
In communications, Circuit Switched Data (CSD) is the original form of data transmission developed for the time-division multiple access (TDMA)-based mobile phone systems like Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM).
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Code-division multiple access
Code-division multiple access (CDMA) is a channel access method used by various radio communication technologies.
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Covington, Louisiana
Covington is a city in, and the parish seat of, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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DASA
DASA (officially Deutsche Aerospace AG, later Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG, then DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG), was the former aerospace subsidiary of Daimler-Benz AG (later DaimlerChrysler) from 1989. In July 2000, DASA merged with Aérospatiale-Matra and CASA to form EADS.
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Ericsson
Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson) is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm.
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Ericsson R290
The Ericsson R290 is a combined GSM and satellite phone using the Globalstar satellite network.
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Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (and) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.
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Fregat
Fregat (Фрегат, frigate) is an upper stage developed by NPO Lavochkin in the 1990s, which is used in some Soyuz and Zenit rockets.
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Gateway (telecommunications)
A gateway is the piece of networking hardware used in telecommunications via communications networks that allows data to flow from one discrete network to another.
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Geolocation
Geolocation is the identification or estimation of the real-world geographic location of an object, such as a radar source, mobile phone, or Internet-connected computer terminal.
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Gonets
Gonets (Russian Гонец, Messenger) is a Russian civilian low Earth orbit communication satellite system.
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Graveyard orbit
A graveyard orbit, also called a junk orbit or disposal orbit, is an orbit that lies away from common operational orbits.
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GSM
GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as tablets, first deployed in Finland in December 1991.
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High-yield debt
In finance, a high-yield bond (non-investment-grade bond, speculative-grade bond, or junk bond) is a bond that is rated below investment grade.
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Hyundai
Hyundai Group is a multinational (conglomerate) headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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Initial public offering
Initial public offering (IPO) or stock market launch is a type of public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also retail (individual) investors; an IPO is underwritten by one or more investment banks, who also arrange for the shares to be listed on one or more stock exchanges.
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Inmarsat
Inmarsat plc is a British satellite telecommunications company, offering global mobile services.
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Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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Iridium Communications
Iridium Communications Inc. (formerly Iridium Satellite LLC) is a publicly traded American company headquartered in McLean, Virginia.
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Iridium satellite constellation
The Iridium satellite constellation provides L-band voice and data coverage to satellite phones, pagers and integrated transceivers over the entire Earth surface.
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Irwin M. Jacobs
Irwin Mark Jacobs (born October 18, 1933) is an electrical engineer, a co-founder and former chairman of Qualcomm, and chair of the board of trustees of the Salk Institute.
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IS-41
IS-41, also known as ANSI-41, is a mobile, cellular telecommunications system standard to support mobility management by enabling the networking of switches.
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Limited partnership
A limited partnership (LP) is a form of partnership similar to a general partnership except that while a general partnership must have at least two general partners (GPs), a limited partnership must have at least one GP and at least one limited partner.
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Loral Corporation
Loral Corporation was a defense contractor founded in 1948 in New York by William Lorenz and Leon Alpert as Loral Electronics Corporation.
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Loral Space & Communications
Loral Space & Communications Inc. is a satellite communications company headed by Michael B. Targoff and incorporated in Delaware.
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Low Earth orbit
A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with an altitude of or less, and with an orbital period of between about 84 and 127 minutes.
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Mobile-satellite service
Mobile-satellite service (MSS, or mobile-satellite radiocommunication service) is – according to Article 1.25 of the International Telecommunication Union's Radio Regulations – "A radiocommunication service.
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NASDAQ
The Nasdaq Stock Market is an American stock exchange.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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North American Numbering Plan
The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan that encompasses 25 distinct regions in twenty countries primarily in North America, including the Caribbean and the U.S. territories.
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O3b Networks
O3b Networks Ltd. is a network communications service provider building and operating a medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellite constellation primarily intended to provide voice and data communications to mobile operators and Internet service providers, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of SES S.A.
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Orbcomm
ORBCOMM is an American company that offers industrial Internet of things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M) communications solutions designed to track, monitor, and control fixed and mobile assets in markets including transportation, heavy equipment, maritime, oil and gas, utilities and government.
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Orbital inclination
Orbital inclination measures the tilt of an object's orbit around a celestial body.
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Packet switching
Packet switching is a method of grouping data which is transmitted over a digital network into packets which are made of a header and a payload.
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Pendrell Corporation
Pendrell Corporation (NASDAQ:PCO) is a fully integrated intellectual property (IP) investment, advisory services and asset management firm.
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Public switched telephone network
The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the aggregate of the world's circuit-switched telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or local telephony operators, providing infrastructure and services for public telecommunication.
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Qualcomm
Qualcomm is an American multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company that designs and markets wireless telecommunications products and services.
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Radio repeater
A radio repeater is a combination of a radio receiver and a radio transmitter that receives a signal and retransmits it, so that two-way radio signals can cover longer distances.
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Rake receiver
A rake receiver is a radio receiver designed to counter the effects of multipath fading.
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Rome
Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).
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Roscosmos
The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities (Государственная корпорация по космической деятельности «Роскосмос»), commonly known as Roscosmos (Роскосмос), is a state corporation responsible for the space flight and cosmonautics program for the Russian Federation.
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S band
The S band is a designation by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for a part of the microwave band of the electromagnetic spectrum covering frequencies from 2 to 4 gigahertz (GHz).
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San Diego
San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.
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Satellite constellation
A satellite constellation is a group of artificial satellites working in concert.
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Satellite phone
A satellite telephone, satellite phone, or satphone is a type of mobile phone that connects to orbiting satellites instead of terrestrial cell sites.
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SkyWave Mobile Communications
SkyWave Mobile Communications (“SkyWave”) is a global provider of satellite and satellite-cellular devices in the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market.
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SMS
SMS (short message service) is a text messaging service component of most telephone, internet, and mobile-device systems.
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Soft handover
Soft handover or soft handoff refers to a feature used by the CDMA and W-CDMA standards, where a cell phone is simultaneously connected to two or more cells (or cell sectors) during a call.
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South Atlantic Anomaly
The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is an area where the Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to the Earth's surface, dipping down to an altitude of.
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Soyuz-2
Soyuz-2, GRAU index 14A14, is the collective designation for the new version of the Russian Soyuz rocket.
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Spot beam
A spot beam, in telecommunications parlance, is a satellite signal that is specially concentrated in power (i.e. sent by a high-gain antenna) so that it will cover only a limited geographic area on Earth.
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SPOT Satellite Messenger
SPOT is a GPS tracking device that uses the Globalstar satellite network to provide text messaging and GPS tracking (depending on the subscription type purchased).
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Subscriber identity module
A subscriber identity module or subscriber identification module (SIM), widely known as a SIM card, is an integrated circuit that is intended to securely store the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number and its related key, which are used to identify and authenticate subscribers on mobile telephony devices (such as mobile phones and computers).
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Teledesic
Teledesic was a company founded in the 1990s to build a commercial broadband satellite constellation for Internet services.
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Telephone call
A telephone call is a connection over a telephone network between the called party and the calling party.
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Telephone number
A telephone number is a sequence of digits assigned to a fixed-line telephone subscriber station connected to a telephone line or to a wireless electronic telephony device, such as a radio telephone or a mobile telephone, or to other devices for data transmission via the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or other private networks.
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Telephone numbering plan
A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints.
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Telit
Telit Communications PLC is a global provider of wireless machine to machine (M2M) technology and value-added services including connectivity cloud and PaaS Application Enablement Services headquartered in London, UK.
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TerreStar Corporation
TerreStar Corporation (TSTR), formerly Motient Corp. (MNCP - 2000-2007) and American Mobile Satellite Corp. (AMSC - 1988-2000), was the controlling shareholder of TerreStar Networks Inc., TerreStar National Services, Inc. and TerreStar Global Ltd., and a shareholder of SkyTerra Communications.
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Text messaging
Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile phones, tablets, desktops/laptops, or other devices.
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Thales Alenia Space
Thales Alenia Space is a Franco-Italian aerospace manufacturer formed after the Thales Group bought the participation of Alcatel in the two joint-ventures between Alcatel and Leonardo, Alcatel Alenia Space and Telespazio.
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Thuraya
Thuraya (الثريا), from the Arabic name for the constellation of the Pleiades, "Thurayya", is a regional Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) provider.
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Transponder (satellite communications)
A communications satellite's transponder is the series of interconnected units that form a communications channel between the receiving and the transmitting antennas.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government.
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Vodafone
Vodafone Group plc is a British multinational telecommunications conglomerate, with headquarters in London.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalstar
