comsat

Etymology

Shortening.

noun

  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
    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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