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    A satellite or artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body. Satellites have a variety of uses...
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    Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by Starlink Services, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of American aerospace company SpaceX, providing...
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    Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly...
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    A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication...
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    The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated...
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    A natural satellite is, in the most common usage, an astronomical body that orbits a planet, dwarf planet, or small Solar System body (or sometimes another...
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    A satellite navigation or satnav system is a system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geopositioning. A satellite navigation system with global...
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  • mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views...
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  • communication satellite. The term most commonly means a dish which receives direct-broadcast satellite television from a direct broadcast satellite in geostationary...
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  • A satellite state or dependent state is a country that is formally independent but under heavy political, economic, and military influence or control...
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