Ground station

An earth station (short: ErdFuSt, english earth station) is as defined by the International Telecommunication Union, a radio station, which is located either on the surface or within the bulk of the Earth's atmosphere and which is intended

• With one or more space stations or
• With one or more radio stations of the same type of one or more satellites or other space -reflecting body

Handle radio communications.

Are typically used in earth stations via satellite dishes for the reception of radio waves or the (radio) broadcasting of radio waves via satellite feeder links (English feeder links ) in defined radio frequency bands that are allocated to the radio service concerned and where the earth station at least one radio frequency by the responsible spectrum management has been allocated. These antennas have large antenna gains are in the azimuth angle and elevation angle freely movable, are precisely aligned on a geostationary satellite, but can also follow the orbit orbiting satellites.

Known earth stations

Germany:

• Earth station fox town in Lower Franconia
• Earth station Neu Golm, Bad Saarow, Brandenburg
• Earth station Raisting am Ammersee, Bavaria
• Usingen earth station, Upper Taunus, Hesse

Austria:

• Earth station Aflenz Aflenz Land

Switzerland:

• The earth stations operated by Swisscom in Leuk, Zurich, Basel and Geneva were abandoned in 2001 and sold ( Leuk ).

Related Topics

• Radio telescopes are similar to the parabolic mirrors of the earth station, however, serve as a pure receiver ( in radar astronomy and transmitter) the observation of different objects in space.
• Satellite stations serve the geodetic observation of artificial earth satellites.