Originally Posted By: philip
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I expect news services to tie up satellites, too, in a big emergency as they use satellite phones and modems to stream video back to HQ.


They generally DON'T use the same kind of birds that sat phones use, they have birds up in geosync orbit for most of their stuff, which is why you see fairly large ground station trucks

I used to work for one of the major TV networks (laid off 2.5 weeks ago) and some of my software was to monitor one of the downlinks
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