comsat

noun

comsat

noun

Etymology Shortening.

1

A communications satellite.

Once a comsat is built, its traffic-handling capacity can be utilized […]1967, Arthur Charles Clarke, The Coming of the Space Age:
[…] educating farmers and schoolchildren, according to the social scientists studying it, are sufficient reasons in themselves to purchase a comsat.1977, New Scientist:

1 more example

The suborbital, though, had a direct feed to a comsat, and the channel ought to be secure.1998, Ian Douglas, Semper Mars:

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