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2. Satellite Internet access - Wikipedia

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   How satellite internet works. Satellite Internet generally relies on three primary components: a satellite – historically in geostationary orbit (or GEO) but now increasingly in Low Earth orbit (LEO) or Medium Earth orbit MEO) [20] – a number of ground stations known as gateways that relay Internet data to and from the satellite via radio waves (), and further ground stations to serve each ...

3. Hughes Network Systems - Wikipedia

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   EchoStar. ASNs. 6621, 63062. Website. www.Hughes.com. Hughes Network Systems, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar. [4] It is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland and provides satellite internet service. [5] HughesNet has over a million subscribers in the Americas in late 2023, [6] down from 1.4 million in early 2022.

4. Satellite television in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In December 1975, RCA created Satcom 1, the first satellite built especially for use by the then three national television networks (CBS, NBC, and ABC). Later that same year, HBO leased a transponder on Satcom 1 and began transmission of television programs via satellite to cable systems. Owners of cable systems paid $10,000 to install 3-meter ...

5. US satellite-TV providers DirecTV and Dish are in talks to ...

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   Anirban Sen. September 13, 2024 at 9:47 PM. By Anirban Sen. (Reuters) - Telecom operator AT&T and its joint-venture partner TPG are in early-stage talks to merge their DirecTV satellite TV service ...

6. Very-small-aperture terminal - Wikipedia

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   A 2.5 m parabolic dish antenna for bidirectional satellite Internet access. A very-small-aperture terminal (VSAT) [ 1 ] is a two-way satellite ground station with a dish antenna that is smaller than 3.8 meters. The majority of VSAT antennas range from 75 cm to 1.2 m. Bit rates, in most cases, range from 4 kbit/s up to 16 Mbit/s.

7. SpaceX's new, smaller Starlink satellite-internet dish is a ...

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   SpaceX's Starlink announced a new rectangular satellite-internet dish. The new user terminal is part of a simplified kit that includes a WiFi-only router.