Such geosynchronous vehicles act as relay stations for telecommunications, and also as broadcasting platforms for satellite television.
Such machines could be used for scientific research or surveillance, or as relay stations to transmit communication signals across long distances.
In April, China launched its first tracking data relay satellite to lessen its dependency on ground satellite control and relay stations.
Isolated areas of the cortex may still be functional, but damage to crucial brain relay stations disconnects them from the rest of the brain.
On February 28th and March 1st, American missiles blew up radio relay stations near Mosul in the north that transmit operational data for Iraq's main oil pipeline.
Since the primary waves travel more quickly than the comparatively sluggish secondary waves, the system picks up on the magnitude and speed at which the quake is approaching, and beams the data over fiber optic networks to emergency relay stations setup in corporate towers, governmental buildings, hospitals, and transportation venues such as railways.
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So Ted Stevens may have saved my life and that was something a great many Alaskans could say as they looked about at the roads and bridges, the hospitals and flood-control systems, the satellite weather and global-positioning relay stations, the sprawling Army and Air Force bases, the rural landing strips and postal air-cargo flights that sustain existence in Alaska as it enters its fiftieth year of statehood.
Those stations relay Fox programming such as "Glee" and "Family Guy" for free over the airwaves in local markets and add their own local news and other programming.
But like radar technology, ADS-B currently relies on ground stations to relay information, making it useless over remote areas.
The ground control stations send their commands to Reaper via a fibre-optic link to a satellite relay station in Europe, which bounces them into space and back down to the aircraft.
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