SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Domestic satellite A satellite beam that covers almost 42.5% of the earth’s surface.

Detailed explanation-2: -Global Beam: A satellite beam with wide geographic coverage of 40 percent of the Earth’s surface, as seen from the satellite.

Detailed explanation-3: -The area of earth covered by radio beam from a satellite dish (transponder) is called satellite footprint.

Detailed explanation-4: -A geostationary satellite must be at a height of about 36000 km from the earth’s surface.

Detailed explanation-5: -Brief Description. Telstar, launched in 1962, was the first active communications satellite: it received microwave signals from ground stations and retransmitted them across vast distances back to Earth. It was the model for all subsequent communications satellites.