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  • Also, with Ku-band (geostationary orbit) satellites, each transponder is pointing at a sector.

    After Long Delays, In-Flight Broadband Is Taking Off 2009

  • During the missions's first spacewalk, NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, at left, and astronaut Steve Bowen (not seen) loosened bolts holding six replacement batteries, installed a second antenna for high-speed Ku-band transmissions and added a spare parts platform for the station's robotic arm.

    The Last Landing 2010

  • During periods when the station is actively communicating with the ground using high-speed Ku-band communications, the crew will have remote access to the Internet via a ground computer.

    ISS Now Has Live Access to the Internet | Universe Today 2010

  • This is a an altimeter and interferometer that operates in the Ku-band 13.575 GHz, and uses radar signals bounced off the ice to measure its thickness variations.

    Cryosat-2 Set to Launch Next Week | Universe Today 2010

  • Internet routing technology being tested in the IRIS project will enable this communication by "decoding what comes up in the C-band or Ku-band and interconnecting the two," said Wood.

    Boing Boing: April 8, 2007 - April 14, 2007 Archives 2007

  • Traditionally, communication signals that come up to a satellite in either the C-band or the Ku-band, go down in the same band, he said.

    Boing Boing: April 8, 2007 - April 14, 2007 Archives 2007

  • It will be placed in a geostationary orbit 36,000 kilometers above the earth's surface at 109.2 degrees west and will have 60 36-megahertz transponders providing 36 C-band channels and 24 Ku-band channels, more than sufficient for the provision of high-speed data transmission, Internet, TV, radio and telephone links and distance education, video conferencing and a host of other commercial applications.

    Lloyd Mexico Economic Report January 2004 2006

  • Satmex 6 will have 60 36-megahertz transponders providing 36 C-band channels and 24 Ku-band channels, which will be used for the provision of high-speed data transmission, Internet, TV, radio and telephone links and distance education, in addition to video conferencing and a host of other commercial applications.

    Lloyd Mexico Economic Report May 2003 2006

  • Satmex 6 will have 60 36-megahertz transponders providing 36 C-band channels and 24 Ku-band channels, which will be used for the provision of high-speed data transmission, Internet, TV, radio and telephone links and distance education, in addition to video conferencing and a host of other commercial applications.

    Lloyd Mexico Economic Report May 2003 2006

  • With ten times its power and 48 transponders (24 C-band and 24 Ku-band), it will provide business communications, television and educational programming services to a region stretching from Canada to Argentina.

    Lloyd Mexico Economic Report - January 1999 2006

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