what is hybrid satellite?
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Satellite that carries two or more different communications payloads; ie, C-band and Ku-band.
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Satellites take small sections of digital images and they are patched together by powerful computers back on Earth so that they look as if the whole of the visible element of the world is taken with one photo...;
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Most modern satellites have similar basic parts and most have extra parts for their special needs. They have generally three basic parts. They are a radar system which is used to measure the height from the earths surface, receivers and transmitters to receive and send out signals, usually radio or micro waves, they also have small altitude control nozzles that squirt out puffs of gas to tilt the satellite to change it’s altitude or direction. These are also known as thrusters or sometimes ‘puffers'. Most satellites have special equipment for their special needs. For example Research satellites may have telescopes and antennae that they point into space to receive rays from deep in space, Survsat (survey satellites) have telescopes, cameras and other sensors to view the earth’s surface and Comsat (communications satellites) have various antennae and thousands of transponders (automatic devices used to receive and send radio signals) each one dealing with a radio or telephone signal, or dealing with part of a Television channel. All of the equipment is built by electronics experts and aerospace engineers who give satellite makers a range that they can choose from. Some satellite makers sell their satellites commercially and their satellites can cost you in excess of US$15million and can take up to two years to build. Custom satellites can also be made for individual needs but these can take double the time and can cost up to five times as much. It can be seen that the satellite business is a very costly one.\n\nSatellites electronics have to be powered and are usually sone so with the help of the sun. Satellites have large panels, which fold out and contain many solar cells. Although this is the case for half of the satellites orbit it is in total darkness and therefore it needs to have a battery to power it, which most satellites do. These batteries as recharged by the solar panels and then continue to power the satellite during the time of darkness.
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The Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) system on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites of the United States provides a reduced resolution data stream from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument. It transmits the data continuously as an analogue broadcast that can be received in real-time by relatively unsophisticated, inexpensive ground station equipment while the satellite is within radio range. It was introduced in 1970 and for some three decades has provided image data to relatively low-cost user stations at locations in most countries of the world, giving many professional and other users their first introduction to real-time satellite imagery. A user station anywhere in the world can receive local data from up to three satellite overpasses twice a day from each satellite. Advances in communications technology will enable a transition to a new digital system - Low Rate Picture Transmission (LRPT) - in the early years of the new century.\n\nRetrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Picture_Transmission"
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Hybrids are a half wood - half iron club.  They have a center gravity that is a lot easier to hit than a long iron.  The off center hits of a hybrid are much better than a long iron.  A hybrid is much easier to hit good shots also.  Most golfers will no longer need a 3 or 4 iron with Hybrids and they will play much better that way.
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A radio relay station in orbit above the earth that receives, amplifies and redirects analog and digital signals contained within a carrier frequency. There are three kinds. Geostationary (GEO) satellites are in orbit 22,282 miles above the earth and rotate with the earth, thus appearing stationary. The downlink from GEOs back to earth can be localized into small areas or cover as much as a third of the earth's surface.\n\nLow-earth orbit (LEO) satellites reside no more than 1,000 miles above the earth and revolve around the globe every couple of hours. They are only in view for a few minutes, and multiple LEOs are required to maintain continuous coverage. Medium-earth orbit (MEO) satellites are in the middle, taking about six hours to orbit the earth and in view for a couple of hours.\n\nI hope this helps...\n\nDon
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Go with satellite.  I went that way, and have been very pleased.
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A satellite transmits signals to the earth.it tracks the object by moving with the same speed as that of the car
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no, it is a natural satellite.
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go here this will work cause ive used this plenty of times. http://www.bbzspace.com/hybrid.php
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It allows the satellite to orbit over different parts of the planet rather than sitting over the same section all the time as it would if it was over the equator.  A type of inclined orbit, called geosynchronous, allows the satellite to be over the same location at the same time every day.\n\nReasons for wanting a satellite in an inclined orbit might be a photographic satellite whose owners wish to be able to take images of the entire planet.  Other scientific instruments may also be part of experiments to collect data of the whole planet, thus requiring an inclined orbit.\n\nIt should be noted that by definition, a polar orbit is also an inclined orbit.
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there are many satellites mapping the earth and not all of them are owned by the US gov. regardless of what paranoid europeans want to believe. The french own the SPOT sattelites and quickbird and orbview are privately owned. Different sattelittes monitor and are used to map different features such as land use and land cover, ocean temperatures, weather, geological data, ecological data and a host of other things
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The main advantage is a somewhat "fixed" location in the sky relative to the Earth, and relative ease in repositioning them into other fixed positions. There are also some advantages to lower orbits. \n\nGPS satellites are NOT geostationary.  They rely on precise on board time signals and precise knowledge of their orbital ephemerii and a large enough "constellation" such that 3 or more are above the horizon and able for your receiver to pick up at any point in time over nearly the whole planet. \n\nWith a sophisticated control system you can make do with several low orbiting satellites.  The advantage with a low orbit is they are cheaper to launch, and can cover a broader range of latitudes ( geostationary orbits MUST orbit over the equator to be geostationary.  That means at higher latitudes they are lower on the horizon.  At some point they become unusuable, so are not suitable for high bandwidth or reliable communications in places like northern Europe or Russia.) Geo satellites would make EXCELLENT relay satellites for constellations of lower orbiting spacecraft, permitting spacecraft to spacecraft communication. Instead of having to relay between several to get around the globe (*) You could go up to a geo, over to another geo and back down to the other low orbiter and get almost anywhere.  You might need two hops between geos in some circumstances.\n\n(*)which would also require a much more densly populated constellation.  Iridium was named that because the original plan was to have as many satellites as the element Iridium has electrons; 77!
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There are several commercial satellite imagery service providers: \n\nhttp://www.mapmart.com/WorldSatelliteImagery/satellite.htm\nhttp://www.terraserver.com/products/products.asp\nhttp://www.globexplorer.com/
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A a cross between a pure search engine and a directory to give results is a Hybrid Search Engine Directory. Example - Exactseek.com
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Well, you need to contact NASA to see if they have any clue.  It's definitely more than my small brain can count and my wide eyes can see.  \nAccording to NASA's website "there have been about 4000 launches (some with multiple payloads) and my guess is that several hundred of the satellites involved are still active. Nine individual countries have launched satellites (USA, Russia, Japan, China, France, India, Israel, Australia, UK) as well as international consortia (ESA, the European Space Agency, being the most important of those). A large number of countries have enough money and could easily acquire the technology to launch satellites, but choose for economy and convenience to either have another country launch their payloads or to participate in the space projects of other nations."
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There are literally thousands of satellites in orbit capable of both receiving and transmitting radio signals. Some of their names are Telstar, Comsat (Communication satellites), Cosmos 1602, GOES 7, Landsat 5, NOAA 12, Radarsat, and Seasat 1 (weather satellites).