Satellite television
Satellite television is a way of sending television signals. Television channels go to a ground station, which sends them by radio waves to a communications satellite in space. The satellite then transmits that signal back to earth. People with a satellite dish can receive the signals. Very often, satellite television is provided as a pay television service (especially to places where cable TV is not available). Here are some examples:
- Sky (UK)
- Freesat (UK)
- Dish Network (US)
- Astro (Satellite TV)
Satellite Television Media
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A number of satellite dishes
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Diagram showing how modern satellite television works
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Back view of a linear polarised LNB.
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A DTH Satellite dish from India.
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DBS satellite dishes installed on an apartment complex in San Jose, CA (2006).
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A C-band Andrew Corporation satellite dish used by TVRO systems.
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In 1960 TIROS 1 sent back the first televised image of Earth from space, becoming the first weather satellite.
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Intelsat I (1965), the world's first commercial communications satellite, was used among others to relay the Our World multi-national broadcast (1967), the first multi-satellite relayed television broadcast
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Clip of the international broadcast of the first Moon landing, Neil Armstrong making humanity's first step onto an extraterrestrial body, transmitted from Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station and distributed globally via the Intelsat III F-4 satellite.
