comsat
English
Etymology
Shortening.
Noun
comsat (plural comsats)
- A communications satellite.
- 1967, Arthur Charles Clarke, The Coming of the Space Age
- Once a comsat is built, its traffic-handling capacity can be utilized […]
- 1977, New Scientist
- […] educating farmers and schoolchildren, according to the social scientists studying it, are sufficient reasons in themselves to purchase a comsat.
- 1998, Ian Douglas, Semper Mars
- The suborbital, though, had a direct feed to a comsat, and the channel ought to be secure.
- 1967, Arthur Charles Clarke, The Coming of the Space Age
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