单词 | intelsat |
释义 | Intelsatn. 1. A proprietary name for: an international organization of member countries formed in 1964 to establish and operate a worldwide system of commercial communications satellites. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > [noun] > link or network > satellite communication satellite1957 communications satellite1957 satellite link1959 Intelsat1966 society > communication > telecommunication > [noun] > link or network > satellite > organization Intelsat1966 1966 Aviation Week 7 Mar. 125/3 International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium (Intelsat) is already on the road to becoming a profit-making venture by 1970. It now includes 48 nations... U.S.'s Communications Satellite Corp. serves as manager for the consortium. 1971 New Scientist 3 June 552/1 The settlement now reached mostly meets the criticism..that Intelsat was American dominated. 1997 NetGuide Aug. 25/2 Stop saying satellites operating 22,300 miles above the Earth can't handle Internet traffic. That's just something the people pushing low-earth-orbiting satellites (435 miles above the equator) are saying because they're jealous, says IntelSat. 2. A proprietary name for: a communications satellite owned by this organization. ΚΠ 1967 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 Jan. 4/3 The successful weekend orbiting of Intelsat II. 1979 O. Davies in O. Davis Omni Bk. of Space 178 The Intelsat V-A, launched in 1980, is a workhorse with 12,000 circuits. 2004 Tele-Satellite Internat. July 14/1 FDM is short for ‘Frequency Division Multiplex’ and was mainly used to transmit packaged data and audio signals in a single transponder over INTELSAT and ARABSAT. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1966 |
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