Satellite Articles
Satellite TV
Satellite television or Satellite TV is television transmitted by satellites located in the Earth’s orbit. The First satellite TV transmission was an 8-minute satellite broadcast and was relayed from France to US via Telstar I. Canada launched operation o...
How does a Satellite TV work?
Satellite television signal, is first transmitted to the satellite with huge antenna located at an uplink satellite facility. The uplink satellite antennas (dishes) are aimed to the satellite in the Earth’s orbit. The uplink satellite dishes are very big...
Satellite Dish
The Satellite Dish is satellite reception/transmission equipment, which receives satellite(s) signal. The Satellite Dish antenna can be parabolic, concave or flat. The Satellite Dish receives the signal from the satellite in the Earth’s orbit and focuses ...
Satellite Receiver
The Satellite Receiver is the last part of the satellite system. The receiver does several important things.
1. The Satellite Receiver first descrambles the encrypted satellite signal using the appropriate decoder chip. The satellite signal providers ...
Dish Network
Dish Network (EchoStar Communications Corporation) is based in Englewood Colorado. Dish Network has been a top satellite provider in the satellite TV industry for over 1 decade now. EchoStar launched its first own satellite called EchoStar I in 1995, and ...
DirectTV
DirecTV has almost 14 million subscribers (12 million in U.S. and 1.5 million in Latin countries). DirectTV has 25 satellites, covering 97% of the world.
DirecTV offers two main dish designs for their satellite TV service. The first one is the 18" rou...