GLOBALSTAR

Satellite Communications Glossary

Satellite Communications — Globalstar

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Like Iridium, Globalstar provides global mobile telephony services. The Globalstar constellation consists of 48 LEO satellites, with an additional four satellites in orbit as spares. Globalstar offers the following services via a dual-mode handheld terminal: voice calling, Short Messaging Service (SMS), roaming, positioning, facsimile, and data transmission. The satellites utilise a bent-pipe architecture to retransmit a call via CDMA technology to an Earth terminal called a Gateway where the call is then routed locally through the terrestrial telecommunications infrastructure. Globalstar operates at an altitude of 1414 km. Globalstar offers a wide range of products and services, including: mobile phones, fixed phones, data communications and encryption.


Other topics in our resources on Satellite Communications related to Globalstar include: 
 
  • Globalstar satellite phone
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  • Globalstar phone
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  • Globalstar satellite

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