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  2. Pager - Wikipedia

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    Pager. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. [2]

  3. Iridium satellite constellation - Wikipedia

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    The Iridium satellite constellation was conceived in the early 1990s as a way to reach high Earth latitudes with reliable satellite communication services. [9] Early calculations showed that 77 satellites would be needed, hence the name Iridium, after the metal with atomic number 77.

  4. Iridium Communications - Wikipedia

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    Iridium Communications Inc. (formerly Iridium Satellite LLC) is a publicly traded American company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, United States. Iridium operates the Iridium satellite constellation, a system of 75 satellites: 66 are active satellites and the remaining nine function as in-orbit spares. [2]

  5. Communications satellite - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth. Communications satellites are used for television, telephone, radio, internet, and military ...

  6. Satellite phone - Wikipedia

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    Satellite phone ( Inmarsat) in use in Nias, Indonesia, in April 2005 after the Nias–Simeulue earthquake. A satellite telephone, satellite phone or satphone is a type of mobile phone that connects to other phones or the telephone network by radio link through satellites orbiting the Earth instead of terrestrial cell sites, as cellphones do.

  7. Satellite emergency notification device - Wikipedia

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    A Satellite Emergency Notification Device or SEND is a portable emergency notification and locating device which uses commercial satellite systems rather than the COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system. An example of this device is SPOT. The devices use an internal GPS chip to gather location information. When the SEND is triggered, this information is ...

  8. Global Mobile Satellite System - Wikipedia

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    The Global Mobile Satellite System (GMSS) consists of several satellite phone providers serving private customers. It can be compared to PLMN ( wireless telephony carriers) and PSTN (traditional wire-based telephony ). As of 2023, ranges of numbers have been assigned to two GMSS carriers: Iridium Satellite LLC. Globalstar.

  9. High-throughput satellite - Wikipedia

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    High-throughput satellite ( HTS) is a communications satellite that provides more throughput than a classic FSS satellite (at least twice, though usually by a factor of 20 or more [1]) for the same amount of allocated orbital spectrum, thus significantly reducing cost-per-bit. [2] ViaSat-1 and EchoStar XVII (also known as Jupiter-1 [3]) do ...

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