High-Speed Satellite Internet Keeps Our Troops Connected to Home
Monday, March 9th, 2009Stationed far from home, the troops holding down the frontlines in our military operations rarely have access to the Internet. Line of sight radios have been the only communication method in the past for the frontline troops, and buildings and natural formations can block those signals.
Recently, the Defense Department has made it a priority to connect frontline troops to home using satellite Internet and satellite communications. Satellite communications have been used for decades in critical military operations. However, now the demand for mobile connectivity has the military working on expanding technologies and using existing methods to their full potential.
Satellite Communication
Friday, February 27th, 2009From Bird watching to Satellite communication man has traveled a lot from being controlled to a controlling factor. Similarly in satellite communications from AT&T first launched in 1962 to present day innumerable developments have occurred.
This satellite equipment has two basic components namely satellite and ground station. Among these, satellites are known as space segment, which can be further fragmented into 3 parts as transponder, fuel systems and telemetry control. First the transponder of the satellite equipment, through its antenna picks and sends the signal while telemetry system reflects electronic signals.
More Satellite Internet
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009Satellite Internet is commonly is places where the terrestrial Internet is not available and also in locations that are constantly mobile, like a ship. Satellite Internet access has worldwide availability, even in ships and moving land based vehicles.
Satellite Internet
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009Satellite Internet systems are also one way receive systems that have the common dial-up internet access. The data that is outbound travels through a modem that connects to the internet by a telephone line but the satellite-sent downloads travel at speeds of broadband Internet. In the United States, the uplink stations are required to take obtain FCC license while the end users need not take any license.
Satellite Phone
Friday, February 20th, 2009A satellite phone or sat phone as is commonly called is a phone that offers connection to satellites that are orbiting the earth instead of connecting to the terrestrial sites. It could cover the entire earth or it could cover only specific regions of the earth. Previously, the satellite phones looked like the mobile phones prevalent during the 1980s and 1990s, the online difference being a large antenna that was retractable. But recent satellite phone look more like the modern day mobile phones. Satellite phones are popularly used in places where the terrestrial cellular phones do not have any coverage.
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