geostationary communications satellite

C12006
concept

A geostationary communications satellite is a spacecraft positioned in an equatorial orbit that matches Earth's rotation, remaining fixed over one longitude to relay telecommunications signals between ground stations.

All labels observed (11)

Label Occurrences
geostationary satellite 34
commercial satellite 7
INSAT series satellite 6

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: geostationary communications satellite
Generated description
A geostationary communications satellite is a spacecraft positioned in an equatorial orbit that matches Earth's rotation, remaining fixed over one longitude to relay telecommunications signals between ground stations.

Instances (55)

Instance Via concept surface
GSAT-17 geostationary satellite
GSAT-18 geostationary satellite
GSAT-29 geostationary satellite
GSAT-30 geostationary satellite
GSAT-31 geostationary satellite