relay satellite

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

“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

I omitted mention for the present of my little relay satellite, set into orbit from the rocket; I did not want to give them the impression that their sky was full of my junk.

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