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Inter-satellite service, also known as inter-satellite radiocommunication service, as defined by ''Article 1.22'' of the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
* ''Earth exploration-satellite service.'' ITU, Genf 2011. {{Radiocommunication services ITU Radiocommunication services ITU *
Inter-satellite service, also known as inter-satellite radiocommunication service, as defined by ''Article 1.22'' of the International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)In the other common languages of the ITU:
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's (ITU) Radio Regulations
Radio regulation refers to the regulation and licensing of radio in international law, by individual governments, and by municipalities.
International regulation
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(RR), is a radiocommunication service providing links between artificial satellite
A satellite or an artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body. They have a variety of uses, including communication relay, weather forecasting, navigation ( GPS), broadcasting, scienti ...
s.ITU Radio Regulations, Section IV. Radio Stations and Systems – Article 1.22, definition: ''inter-satellite service / inter-satellite radiocommunication service''
Classification
In accordance with ''ITU Radio Regulations'' (article 1) variations of this ''radiocommunication service'' are classified as follows: * Fixed service (article 1.20) ** Fixed-satellite service (article 1.21) ** Inter-satellite service (article 1.22) ** Earth exploration-satellite service (article 1.51) *** Meteorological-satellite service (article 1.52)Satellites
Inter-satellite radiocommunications satellites
* U.S. Tracking and Data Relay Satellite *Artemis (satellite)
Artemis was a geostationary earth orbit satellite (GEOS) for telecommunications, built by Alenia Spazio for European Space Agency, ESA. The Artemis satellite operated at the 21.5E orbital position until 2016, when it was moved to 123E to cover t ...
* European Data Relay System
* Indian Data Relay Satellite System
* Luch (satellite) (Russia)
* Tianlian I (China)
Commercial satellite constellations with inter-satellite communication
*Iridium
Iridium is a chemical element; it has the symbol Ir and atomic number 77. This very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group, is considered the second-densest naturally occurring metal (after osmium) with a density ...
* Starlink
Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by Starlink Services, LLC, an international telecommunications provider that is a wholly owned subsidiary of American aerospace company SpaceX, providing coverage to around 130 countries ...
* Kuiper Systems
See also
*Communications satellite
A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a Transponder (satellite communications), transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a Rad ...
* Radio station
Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...
* Wireless mesh network
* Laser communication in space
Laser communication in space is the use of free-space optical communication in outer space. Communication may be fully in space (an inter-satellite laser link) or in a ground-to-satellite or satellite-to-ground application. The main advantage o ...
References / sources
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
* ''Earth exploration-satellite service.'' ITU, Genf 2011. {{Radiocommunication services ITU Radiocommunication services ITU *