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LES | Land Earth Station | |
GES | Gateway Earth Station | |
DSE | Domestic Satellite Earth station | |
MES | Master Earth Station | |
AES | Airborne Earth Station | |
FES | Fixed Earth Station | |
IESS | INTELSAT Earth Station Standard | |
AGNES | Anti Gravity Nuclear Earth Station | |
IESS | Intelsat Earth Station Standards | |
GES | Ground Earth Station | |
VMES | Vehicle-Mounted Earth Station | |
CES | Coast Earth Station | |
EGS | Earth Ground Station | |
AES | Aircraft Earth Station | |
SESN | Satellite Earth Station Network |
What does earth station mean?
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- 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 from astronomical radio sources. Ground stations may be located either on the surface of the Earth, or in its atmosphere. Earth stations communicate with spacecraft by transmitting and receiving radio waves in the super high frequency (SHF) or extremely high frequency (EHF) bands (e.g. microwaves). When a ground station successfully transmits radio waves to a spacecraft (or vice versa), it establishes a telecommunications link. A principal telecommunications device of the ground station is the parabolic antenna. Ground stations may have either a fixed or itinerant position. Article 1 § III of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Radio Regulations describes various types of stationary and mobile ground stations, and their interrelationships.Specialized satellite Earth stations are used to telecommunicate with satellites — chiefly communications satellites. Other ground stations communicate with crewed space stations or uncrewed space probes. A ground station that primarily receives telemetry data, or that follows space missions, or satellites not in geostationary orbit, is called a ground tracking station, or space tracking station, or simply a tracking station. When a spacecraft or satellite is within a ground station's line of sight, the station is said to have a view of the spacecraft (see pass). It is possible for a spacecraft to communicate with more than one ground station at a time. A pair of ground stations are said to have a spacecraft in mutual view when the stations share simultaneous, unobstructed, line-of-sight contact with the spacecraft.
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