Satellite Networking


  • Satellite 101 (Satellite Technology for young People)
  • Earth Satellites
  • How Do Satellites Work?
  • All About Satellites
  • Satellite Communication
  • Satellite Telecommunications
  • Satellite Characteristics Relevant to Networking
  • Low Earth orbit microsatellites for data communications using small terminals
  • Glossary of Satellite Terms
  • The Satellite Encyclopedia
  • The ITU's Satellite page
  • WWW Virtual Library: Communications & Telecommunications: Satellites
  • Yahoo : Science : Space : Satellites
  • Networking via Satellite (Applications in International Development)
  • INTELSAT - International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium - an international organization that owns and operates the satellites used for international satellite communication services
  • COMSAT - Communications Satellite Corporation - the chosen instrument of the United States to hold this country's interest in Intelsat, and to operate the United States ground segment of the Intelsat system
  • AMSAT - Amateur Radio Satellite
  • PEACESAT - Pan-Pacific Education And Communication Experiments by Satellite
  • PEACESAT Program Information
  • Mission of PEACESAT
  • History of PEACESAT
  • Current Services of PEACESAT
  • PEACESAT Affiliates
  • PEACESAT Sites Map
  • VITA Communications Service - VITACOMM, VITASAT, VITAPAC, VITANET
  • TongaSat (Friendly Islands Satellite Communication Ltd.)
  • ORBCOMM - Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Data Communication Network
  • DirecPC
  • Iridium
  • Teledesic
  • GlobalStar
  • Future Satellite Systems - download Internet/WWW via satellite - how it works
  • Courses

  • Satellite Links course at Chalmers University, Sweden
  • Satellite Systems course at George Washington University
  • Software

  • TRAKSAT - a satellite tracking program