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Satellite

Satellite is an artificial object placed into orbit around Earth or another celestial body to deliver communications, navigation, observation, or scientific services, and it matters in enterprise contexts as a network, data, and resilience resource within distributed architectures.

131 articles
282 companies
Most covered: Gilat Satellite Networks, SEALSQ, Netskope

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