geosatellite

English

Etymology

geo- +‎ satellite

Noun

geosatellite (plural geosatellites)

1. A satellite that orbits the earth, especially one that maintains communication with a receiver on earth.
   • 2012, Don Ihde, Listening and Voice:

     One imaginative artist has hooked up a geosatellite device that detects the wobble of the satellite to a digital piano and “played” the wobble music—it sounds quite like a Philip Glass or Steve Reich minimalist music.

   • 2014, August E. Grant, Jennifer H. Meadows, Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals:

     Digital images of any sort, from family photographs to medical Xrays to geosatellite images, can be treated as data.

   • 2017, Jean-Luc Lefebvre, Space Strategy, page 342:

     Determining the presence of a person or mobile object in a given zone using geosatellite position and other radiocommunication methods.

   • 2022, Cécile Fabre, Spying Through a Glass Darkly: The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence, page 22:

     For example, consider current norms of espionage, which license the wholesale collection of geosatellite intelligence by the military in wartime, and prohibit intelligence agents from blackmailing or bribing enemy civilians […]