Noun

(head)

(pluralonly) Telecommunications, the science and technology of communicating, especially by electronic means.

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Noun

(en noun)

A communications satellite.

* 1967 , Arthur Charles Clarke, The Coming of the Space Age

Once a comsat is built, its traffic-handling capacity can be utilized...

* 1977 , New Scientist

...educating farmers and schoolchildren, according to the social scientists studying it, are sufficient reasons in themselves to purchase a comsat .

* 1998 , Ian Douglas, Semper Mars

The suborbital, though, had a direct feed to a comsat , and the channel ought to be secure.