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1		Most medium- and high-power earth stations use either or klystrons for the power amplifiers.


2		is a general term for all the electronic equipment used to deal with the information transmitted back to the earth station.


3		A very small-aperture terminal is a miniature low-cost satellite station.


4		The main application for satellites today is in .


5		Navstar is a satellite-based navigation system that can be used by anyone with an appropriate receiver to pinpoint her or his on earth.


6		Atomic clocks are electronic that use the oscillating energy of a gas to provide a stable operating frequency.


7		The determination of the location of a GPS receiver is based on measuring the distance between the receiver and satellites.


8		The primary application of GPS is military and related .


9		A satellite is a physical object that rotates about some body.


10		One is the period of time that elapses between the successive passes of the satellite over a given meridian of earth longitude.


11		Inclination is the between the equatorial plane and the satellite orbital plane as the satellite enters the northern hemisphere.


12		A line drawn on the surface of the earth between the north and south poles is generally referred to as a(n) .


13		When a transmitting station sends information to a satellite which in turn retransmits it to a receiving station, the satellite is referred to as a(n) .


14		A transponder is a(n) that implements a wideband communication channel that can carry many simultaneous communication transmissions.


15		The ground station is the base of the satellite communication system.

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