Aircraft earth station (also: ''aircraft earth radio station'') is – according to ''Article 1.84'' of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU)

ITU Radio Regulations The ITU Radio Regulations (short: RR) is a basic document of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that regulates on law of nations scale radiocommunication services and the utilisation of radio frequencies. It is the supplementation t ...

(RR)ITU Radio Regulations, Section IV. Radio Stations and Systems – Article 1.84, definition: ''aircraft earth station / aircraft earth radio station'' – defined as ''«A mobile earth station in the

aeronautical mobile-satellite service Aeronautical mobile-satellite service (short: AMSS; | also: ''aeronautical mobile-satellite radiocommunication service'') is – according to ''Article 1.35'' of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Radio Regulations (RR ...

located on board an

aircraft An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engine ...

''.» Each ''station'' shall be classified by the ''service'' in which it operates permanently or temporarily. ;See also:

Classification

In accordance with ''ITU Radio Regulations'' (article 1) this type of ''radio station'' might be classified as follows:

Earth station A ground station, Earth station, or Earth terminal is a terrestrial radio station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft (constituting part of the ground segment of the spacecraft system), or reception of radio waves fr ...

(article 1.63) * Mobile earth station (article 1.68) of the

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 * between mobile earth stations and ...

(article 1.25) * Land earth station (article 1.70) of the

fixed-satellite service Fixed-satellite service (short: FSS | also: fixed-satellite radiocommunication service) is – according to ''article 1.21'' of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Radio Regulations (RR) – defined as ''A radiocommunication se ...

(article 1.21) or mobile-satellite service ** Land mobile earth station (article 1.74) of the land mobile-satellite service (article 1.27) * Base earth station (article 1.72) of the fixed-satellite service * Coast earth station (article 1.76) of the fixed-satellite service / mobile-satellite service * Ship earth station (article 1.78) of the mobile-satellite service * Aeronautical earth station (article 1.82) of the fixed-satellite service /

(article 1.35) *Aircraft earth station

References / sources

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
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