communications satellite
an artificial earth satellite that facilitates communications, as radio, television, and telephone transmissions, by means of the reflection or the amplification and retransmission of signals between stations on earth or in space.
Origin of communications satellite
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How to use communications satellite in a sentence
Two years later, a Russian satellite crashed into a communications satellite owned by the company Iridium.
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British Dictionary definitions for communications satellite
an artificial satellite used to relay radio, television, and telephone signals around the earth, usually in geostationary orbit
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