{"id":16404,"date":"2023-10-28T06:38:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T01:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16404"},"modified":"2025-04-04T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T03:40:12","slug":"satellite-internet-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/satellite-internet-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite internet technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Satellite internet technology<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Satellite internet works similarly to satellite TV.<\/li>\n<li>It begins with an\u00a0internet service provider sending satellites up into space to orbit around the earth.<\/li>\n<li>That ISP then relies on a signal routed through one of those satellites\u00a0in low- or high-Earth orbit and a receiver dish that picks up that signal.<\/li>\n<li>The receiver is typically placed on your home or business in a spot with as unobstructed access to the sky as possible.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll connect a modem to that dish to translate the incoming signal into a workable internet connection.<\/li>\n<li>The more common method of delivering high-speed satellite internet usually\u00a0involves constellations of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites.<\/li>\n<li>LEO satellites orbit at a height of between\u00a0250 and 2,000 kilometres above the planet.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The satellite that orbits the Earth\u00a0communicates using radio waves.<\/li>\n<li>Advantages\n<ul>\n<li>Most ideal internet access for users who live in rural areas, or live far away from cities or cable or phone offices.<\/li>\n<li>As it uses\u00a0satellite dish for two-way communication, it does not need telephone cables or lines.<\/li>\n<li>Compared to other internet options, there are less or negligible network outages in case of satellite internet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Low-Earth orbit?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a region of space located relatively close to Earth&#8217;s surface, extending from approximately 180 miles (290 kilometers) to about 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) above the Earth&#8217;s surface. It is the closest region of space to our planet and is home to various human-made objects, including satellites, space stations, and spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/reliance-jio-satellite-intern-jioairfiber-india-9001675\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reliance Jio demonstrates its satellite-based gigabit internet in India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite internet technology begins with an internet service provider sending satellites up into space to orbit around the earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}