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Communications satellites are signal relay stations in orbit around the Earth. A satellite communications system, as shown in Fig. 14.1, includes a ground segment and a space segment.

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    Ali Atia & Huiwen Yao

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    Viorel Badescu

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Atia, A., Yao, H. (2014). Communications Systems. In: Macdonald, M., Badescu, V. (eds) The International Handbook of Space Technology. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41101-4_14

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