ground station

terrestrial radio station for communication with spacecraft
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ground station
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ground station

Summary

ground station is an ITU radio station type[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of itu_radio_station_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,273 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • ground station's image is recorded as Erdfunkstelle Fuchsstadt.jpg[3].
  • ground station's instance of is recorded as ITU radio station type[4].
  • ground station's GND ID is recorded as 4328255-6[5].
  • ground station's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85040474[6].
  • ground station's subclass of is recorded as radio communication station[7].
  • ground station's subclass of is recorded as geographic location[8].
  • ground station's part of is recorded as ground segment[9].
  • ground station's part of is recorded as telecommunications network[10].
  • ground station's has use is recorded as terminal[11].
  • ground station's has use is recorded as rangefinder[12].
  • ground station's Commons category is recorded as Earth stations[13].
  • ground station's has part is recorded as parabolic antenna[14].
  • ground station's has part is recorded as baseband processor[15].
  • ground station's has part is recorded as modem[16].
  • ground station's has part is recorded as frequency mixer[17].
  • ground station's has part is recorded as low-noise amplifier[18].
  • ground station's has part is recorded as networking hardware[19].
  • ground station's has part is recorded as electromagnetic waveguide[20].
  • ground station's has part is recorded as test loop translator[21].
  • ground station's has part is recorded as low-noise block downconverter[22].
  • ground station's has part is recorded as RF power amplifier[23].
  • ground station's has part is recorded as RF switch matrix[24].
  • ground station's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/040yc6[25].
  • ground station's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ground stations[26].
  • ground station's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300005410[27].

Body

Geography

Part of include ground segment[9] and telecommunications network[10].

Designation and Status

ground station's instance of is recorded as ITU radio station type[4].

Why It Matters

ground station ranks in the top 6% of itu_radio_station_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,273 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 41 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] . Radio Regulations, Edition of 2020. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Radio Regulations, Edition of 2020. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . 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] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Freebase Data Dumps. 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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