relay satellite

Example Sentences

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Missions to the moon’s far side are more difficult because it doesn’t face the Earth, requiring a relay satellite to maintain communications.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 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

“We asked the Americans why they wanted our relay satellite to operate longer,” Wu told CCTV.

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