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Mobile earth station (also: ''mobile earth radio station'') is – according to ''Article 1.68'' 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 1.68, definition: ''mobile earth station / mobile earth radio station'' – defined as «''An
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 ...
in 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 ...
intended to be used while in motion or during halts at unspecified points''.» 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 * 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 / mobile-satellite service * Aircraft earth station (article 1.84) of 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 ...
(article 1.32)


References / sources

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