communications satellite

artificial satellite designed for telecommunications
class spacecraft_type Q149918
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communications satellite

Summary

communications satellite is a spacecraft type[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of spacecraft_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (421 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • communications satellite's image is recorded as AFSATCOM diagram.PNG[3].
  • communications satellite's instance of is recorded as spacecraft type[4].
  • communications satellite's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85008244[5].
  • communications satellite's subclass of is recorded as artificial satellite of the Earth[6].
  • communications satellite's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00573540[7].
  • communications satellite's has use is recorded as satellite communication[8].
  • communications satellite's Commons category is recorded as Communication satellites[9].
  • communications satellite's Unicode character is recorded as 🛰[10].
  • communications satellite's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0c98h[11].
  • communications satellite's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Communications satellites[12].
  • communications satellite's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300212700[13].
  • communications satellite's Iconclass notation is recorded as 46E672[14].
  • communications satellite's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[15].
  • communications satellite's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/communications-satellite[16].
  • communications satellite's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox communications satellite[17].
  • communications satellite's BBC Things ID is recorded as add288e1-f621-4333-ae2b-dbe50a884ea8[18].
  • communications satellite's YSO ID is recorded as 5595[19].
  • communications satellite's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00021228n[20].
  • communications satellite's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 4160768[21].
  • communications satellite's Quora topic ID is recorded as Communication-Satellites[22].
  • communications satellite's Quora topic ID is recorded as Comsat[23].
  • communications satellite's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as satellite-transmission[24].
  • communications satellite's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as communications-satellites[25].
  • communications satellite's UNESCO Thesaurus ID is recorded as concept3067[26].
  • communications satellite's MIL-STD-2525 Symbol Identification Code is recorded as 10010500001111000000[27].

Why It Matters

communications satellite ranks in the top 9% of spacecraft_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (421 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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