Terrestrial radio station for communication with spacecraft.
1The drone is connected to a mobile ground station via a powered tether.
2Microwaves are used to downlink the data stream from the helicopter to a ground station.
3O'Toole, get the ground station operational, and set up the nav' beacon for a check.
4There is evidence of a partial handshake between the aircraft and ground station at 0019 UTC.
5During the flight the ground station logged the transmitted and received pulse frequencies at each handshake.
6The cost of ground station operation is based on solar energy batteries, and therefore relatively cheap.
7Russia wants to set up a satellite ground station in Palau as part of its global navigation network.
8The ground station is the unglamorous half of the satellite transmission, the straight man to the high-flying star.
9If that had been adopted at the start, we would have lost the Brazilian tower ground station at most.'
10The Australian facility played a far less important role than the Kiribati ground station on that mission, the insiders said.
11The Inmarsat technique analyses the difference between the frequency that the ground station expects to receive and one that is actually measured.
12TIROS, for Television Infrared Observation Satellite, sent the very first TV images from space to the ground station at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.
13After that, at 8.19am there was evidence of the jetliner making a partial handshake with the ground station.
14But, so far, that feed has been directed to a ground station where it is viewed on a PC or re-broadcast to TV sets.
15A directional antenna that is set pointing to the ground station transmits HD images up to 120 miles away with no loss or breakup.
16Therefore, sometime between 0011 UTC and 0115 UTC the aircraft was no longer able to communicate with the ground station.
Translations for ground station