Working Principal Of Satellite TV System
May 12th, 2008 | by Muneeb Akhtar |
In 1963 the first communication satellite was developed and launched by a consortium of business and government entities. It was known as Syncom II and achieved an orbit at 22,300 miles over the Atlantic.This first satellite communication was between a U.S. Navy ship in the harbor of Lagos, Nigeria and the U.S. Army located at the naval station at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Telephone companies began using satellite communication for communicating as land based distribution methods became overloaded. Television began using satellites on March 1, 1978 when the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) introduced Public Television Satellite Service. Broadcast networks adopted satellite communication as a distribution method from 1978 through 1984. As the use of satellites for communication and broadcast purposes increased, it became evident that everyone had the potential to receive satellite signals for free
