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Satellite navigators, such as GPS devices, use satellites to get your position. They can often be equipped with maps and be told your intended route or...

Several networks use geostationary satellites, which can cover large portions of the Earth with as little as one satellite, and near global coverage with...

Satellite Beach is a city in Brevard County, Florida. Two major causeways lead to the Satellite Beach area. One is the FL-404, or Pineda Causeway, which...

search out food in the Central Terminal or gates before heading to the Satellites. Dungeness Bay Seafood House. Daily 6AM-10:30PM. All things of the luxury...

ice. See travelling in cold weather. Any system based on geosynchronous satellites (which, relative to Earth, hover at fixed points above the equator) will...

The NASA Polar and Environmental Satellites (POES) directly measure the extent of the auroral oval, but the satellites pass the pole about 14 times a day...

to rely on satellite phones. Along parts of the coast, some services like Inmarsat would work, but as you get further inland, most satellites drop below...

connection with a satellite phone. In some places you can hire one for your hike. If you consider buying one, check coverage: if the satellites are geostationary...

Bell Mobility. Satellite telephone coverage is poor; Iridium works all the way to the North Pole but systems that rely on satellites parked above the...

connections to seven "satellites" named 1T through 1Z (not used at the airport but used on the guide to talk about the different satellites) to which planes...

available on two military satellites, at significantly lower speeds. The rest of the time, the only access is through the Iridium satellite network, which covers...

starry skies allowing to distinguish the movement in the sky of large satellites, the superb sunrises and sunsets, the clouds announcing the weather to...

cheap and easy space tourism they'd been promised wasn't forthcoming. Satellites were starting to become accessible in the 1980s. In 1990, the Hubble Space...

African Festival of Arts and Culture that was held there in 1977, and Satellite Town, a suburb and state housing estate that was set up by the Lagos state...

Pontiac is a city in Oakland County, Michigan, and a satellite city of Detroit. See also: Rail travel in the United States 42.63261-83.292171 Pontiac...

proximity of Singapore Changi Airport. The main terminal has a satellite building ("Satellite Terminal A") containing the C gates, which is connected to the...

is simply not available. A 2008 NASA proposal advocates lunar-orbiting satellites as a workaround but no system has been deployed. The Chinese Chang'e 4...

the national park, but a satellite phone is needed to make contact as there is no phone network – and geostationary satellites are mostly at the horizon...

-41.123333173.0147224 Motueka – the largest town outside Nelson and its satellites -41.8172.3333335 Murchison – some of the finest white water rafting and...

Petaling Jaya, universally referred to as PJ, is a satellite city on the western edge of Kuala Lumpur, in the state of Selangor. Founded in 1954 as Malaysia's...