relay satellite

Example Sentences

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Because the far side never faces Earth, a relay satellite is a needed to maintain communications.

From Seattle Times • May 2, 2024

This is ICS-EF, a Japanese communications package for sending data between the ISS Kibo module and Mission Control Tsukuba via the Kodama data relay satellite.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2023

“They said, perhaps feeling a little embarrassed, that they wanted to make use of our relay satellite when they make their own mission to the farside of the moon.”

From Scientific American • Feb. 7, 2019

But it is difficult to explore, because scientists on Earth cannot communicate via direct radio signal with spacecraft in this remote region — a quandary China’s relay satellite has solved.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2019

At the time appointed I sent the wake signal to the relay satellite, which was in stationary orbit about 300 miles over South Karhide.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin