noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a satellite broadcast
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The match was shown live in a world-wide satellite broadcast.
a satellite channel (= using signals sent from a machine in space )
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CNN and other satellite channels
a spy satellite/plane (= used for spying )
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The Americans have denied using spy satellites to spy on China.
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The photographs were taken by spy planes.
cable/satellite TV
communications satellite
satellite dish
satellite television
satellite/cable television
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They have a dish for satellite television.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
commercial
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Had the system been accepted the first commercial power satellite might have been in operation by 2010.
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Hence Channel One, a commercial satellite network serving, if that is the mot juste, 12,000 schools.
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Within a very few years, there should be commercial satellites in orbit capable of image resolutions down to less than 4m.
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Instead the company is jumping headlong into the commercial satellite business.
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Demand has been so feverish that the company has a backlog of unfilled orders for commercial satellites .
digital
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Satcoms based on modern digital satellites like C-Sat could provide affordable data links.
direct
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They say some cafes have illegal direct satellite links to the internet, to which the authorities often turn a blind eye.
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But it may be the end of the decade before inexpensive, direct satellite connections are widely available.
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Marketers of direct satellite systems do not limit themselves to homes without cable access.
global
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The navigation system employs Global Positioning System satellites and regional map software to help guide drivers to unfamiliar addresses.
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Nevertheless, global television via satellite leaped across nearly all political boundaries.
military
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By providing reliable information on military activity, satellite surveillance could cut out the uncertainty which fuels arms spending.
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No effects are observed on the surface, but infrared detectors aboard a Soviet military satellite o serve the event.
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The system involves the same military satellites used in the Gulf war by the Allies to keep track of vehicle movements.
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Other firms are manufacturing radios, wired and fiber-optic telecommunications, military equipment and satellite receivers in San Diego.
new
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It plans new satellite launches in the next two years which will provide full global coverage.
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It the test is successful, it could lead to a new generation of satellites that would not need steering jets.
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The extra cash would fund research related to the new generation of satellites planned for later in the 1980s.
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The new venture using satellite telecommunications would also help spread the most up-to-date information to industries.
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But a new generation of satellites will carry particularly sensitive instruments giving more detailed information.
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A new satellite is sent up.
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The new satellite will double the country's capacity for information gathering from space.
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They are considering setting up an organisation called Eumetsat to plan three new satellites that will cost £250 million over eight years.
small
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By constantly shuffling alliances with smaller satellite parties they have been able to prevent the left from taking office.
soviet
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No effects are observed on the surface, but infrared detectors aboard a Soviet military satellite o serve the event.
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Kennan applied the same formula in a more general way to the Soviet satellites .
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channel
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Freeze-frame pictures consume less bandwidth on the satellite channel and so cost less.
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The compression will let digital audio-visual services be carried by terrestrial and satellite channels , telecommunications networks or digital storage devices.
communication
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The links may involve microwave or satellite communication in the medium to long term.
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They should start regional cooperative programmes to share the costs of, for instance, satellite communications .
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They also arrange satellite communications and provide other services for their vessels worldwide.
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For 1993, however, Marconi Marine, of Chelmsford, provided the first satellite communications terminal ever used on Everest.
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For satellite communications , geographical boundary lines are irrelevant.
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Added to satellite communications , this could drastically reduce the need, among other things, for commuting in cities.
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Like most other parks growing up around Bangalore, it will have its own power, sewage, and satellite communications systems.
company
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It is hoped the fight sill still be filmed and be picked up by one of the other satellite companies .
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Lockheed Martin is already a leading satellite company .
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A key issue to emerge from the game was the role of private satellite companies .
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Communications satellite company Comsat Corp. was off 1 / 2 to 17 3 / 8.
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I was not the only person who felt betrayed by filthy lucre when the World Cup went to the satellite company .
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Government policy should not undermine free broadcasting in favor of pay services offered by cable, phone and satellite companies .
data
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Both superpowers are opposed to opening up their satellite data to other nations.
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It gives a view of the Earth based on satellite data and photographs, interactive computers and audio-visual systems.
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Other recently published satellite data reveals that such chemicals remained in the atmosphere much longer this winter than last.
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The computers process the satellite data to turn them into useful information.
dish
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In half an hour only one small truck passed, a satellite dish rocking in the back.
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He said he also has five satellite dishes , meaning he can watch five sporting events at the same time.
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Although satellite dishes for television are theoretically illegal, the Damascus skyline reveals them on almost every rooftop.
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All of it flowed to a field of satellite dishes surrounded by spruce trees a few hundred yards from the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
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The Parish Council are of the opinion the satellite dish requires planning approval and it appears that no application has been made.
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The DirecPC satellite dish and software retails for about $ 700.
image
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These can include site plans, satellite images , aerial photographs, geophysical survey, as well as maps.
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Weather satellite images of the area taken from synchronous orbit show an immense circular area of dense clouds above the impact site.
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First, there is the choice of satellite image and the production of a land-cover map.
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The first wells were set alight in February 1991 and their smoke plumes were clearly visible on satellite images of the region.
imagery
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Derived from satellite imagery at comparatively low resolution, predicted yields for different crops in different nation states become of commercial value.
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The visual evidence accumulates in the courtroom without argument: maps, video footage, satellite imagery and photographs.
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Thematic maps from satellite imagery represent an important source of data, particularly in third-world countries.
link
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Filling in the gaps in local services by leasing dedicated satellite links and other telecoms services adds just 7 percent to costs.
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She might arrange for a satellite link thousands of miles away, or a microwave link around the corner.
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They say some cafes have illegal direct satellite links to the internet, to which the authorities often turn a blind eye.
links
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Filling in the gaps in local services by leasing dedicated satellite links and other telecoms services adds just 7 percent to costs.
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Such difficulties not withstanding, fibreoptic systems could bring back to Earth some of the telephone communications that are routed through satellite links .
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Typical videoconferencing systems utilise special telecommunication lines and satellite links .
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They say some cafes have illegal direct satellite links to the internet, to which the authorities often turn a blind eye.
phone
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Use the satellite phone for top security.
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Part of their job was to give refugees access to satellite phones .
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With laptops and satellite phones traffickers can receive information in remote jungle locations.
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Senior police officers have been dismissed for joining the search on the beaches with satellite phones .
service
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Other satellite services have for some time been offering a kind of one-sided videoconferencing facility.
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Instead, the corporation is hunting for stakes in both cable and satellite services .
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That same month, the corporation announced new high-speed cable and satellite services of the kind that Mercury plans to offer.
spy
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During the Kosovo conflict, the thick cloud meant that some unmanned aerial vehicles took more useful pictures than spy satellites .
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These spy satellites were to be in place within a few years to monitor all Soviet military activities.
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It is generally believed that the earliest Soviet military use of photographic imaging spy satellites was in 1962.
system
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All these satellite systems offer an insight in near real time.
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In addition, a rapidly growing domestic satellite system may eventually permit domestic eavesdropping on a scale almost unimaginable.
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In December the United Nations urged governments to get on with setting up a satellite system .
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She would not even slacken speed as she raced through the far-ranging Jovian satellite system .
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To extend our defence satellite system to cover the darkside channel would cost a further one hundred and twenty million.
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Marketers of direct satellite systems do not limit themselves to homes without cable access.
technology
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The boats stripping the world's seas are giant floating freezer factories equipped with radar locators and satellite technology .
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Maybe, but the once pricey products that use this satellite technology have come down to earth.
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With satellite technology it is now possible for a local station to pull in and present multiple pictures on the screen simultaneously.
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And satellite technology has vastly expanded long-distance broadcast communications, especially television.
telephone
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He's been speaking from the mountain using a satellite telephone .
television
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It is illegal to have a residential television satellite dish.
transmission
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There is also an audiovisual language laboratory and facilities for receiving and recording satellite transmissions and for videoconferencing.
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This is something which is much more difficult than physical access to a satellite transmission .
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It is very difficult if not impossible to detect the interception of a satellite transmission .
weather
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Some are communications and weather satellites not unlike their civilian brethren.
■ VERB
broadcast
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At the same time a reforestation telethon will be broadcast live via satellite and by radio around the world.
launch
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Eumetsat would launch three satellites over eight years for £250 million.
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The company has launched 39 satellites so far.
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First, it could hold up Challenger's next attempt to launch a relay satellite , in August.
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Hughes has launched two Ku-band satellites each containing sixteen 120-watt transponders.
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They did a full survey to begin with, launching several satellites to encircle the planet, collecting atmospheric and geographic data.
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A half-dozen giants are bidding for the right to launch satellites that can pump streams of data directly into homes.
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For instance, they could launch technically more advanced satellites and devise market-orientated ways of selling the data around the world.
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Malerba was on last month's Atlantis shuttle flight which failed to launch a satellite to produce electricity.
orbit
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You share it with dolphins and whales and albatrosses and the lonely satellite orbiting overhead.
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Within a very few years, there should be commercial satellites in orbit capable of image resolutions down to less than 4m.
provide
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But Britain is likely to press for a deal under which its own industry provides hardware for the satellites .
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had to figure out how to provide power for satellites .
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Further evidence for a hot Jovian interior is provided by the satellites , as you shall see in section 9.4.4.
send
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Astronauts re-launch stranded satellite Astronauts on the space shuttle have sent a stranded satellite back into orbit.
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Orders with facsimile illustrations are then sent by satellite to suppliers around the world.
transmit
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It would be transmitted on the Astra satellite used by BSkyB.
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Their video will be transmitted by satellite to each of the schools taking part.
use
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Now, just for once try and earn that over-inflated salary we pay you. Use the satellite phone for top security.
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Navy and Marine planes, using navigation satellites , can strike targets in all kinds of weather.
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The new venture using satellite telecommunications would also help spread the most up-to-date information to industries.
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Maybe, but the once pricey products that use this satellite technology have come down to earth.
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The cash proposed yesterday will mainly be used to pay satellite broadcasters.
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Technologysavvy farmers have begun using satellite positioning systems for precision planting and fertilizing.
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He's been speaking from the mountain using a satellite telephone.
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At first it would be used to launched satellites at a tenth the cost of the shuttle.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Soviet satellite countries
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Susan Bruce plans to open a satellite store in St. Paul.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In December the United Nations urged governments to get on with setting up a satellite system.
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One month later a second satellite was launched into a somewhat higher orbit, of between 234 and 244 miles.
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The other outstanding success of the voyage so far was the performance of our little satellite radio.
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There were no reports of communications satellite failures.