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to downlink frequency. However, some modern satellites use on-board processing, where the signal is demodulated, decoded, re-encoded and modulated aboard the satellite. This type, called a "regenerative" transponder, is more complex, but has many advantages, such as improving the signal to noise
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is derived from the received signal. The frequency linkage allows an interrogating ground station to recover the Doppler shift and thus infer range and speed from a communication signal without allocating power to a separate ranging signal.
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transponders: 12 with a bandwidth of 36 MHz, 8 with 54 MHz, and 4 with 72 MHz, which totals to 1152  MHz, or 32 TPE (i.e., 1152 MHz divided by 36 MHz).
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ratio as the signal is regenerated from the digital domain, and also permits selective processing of the data in the digital domain.
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between the receiving and the transmitting antennas. It is mainly used in satellite communication to transfer the received signals.
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Device or series of devices that receive, then transmit (relay) a signal
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stations in orbit and carry dozens of transponders, each with a
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channels may travel through a single transponder on a single
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for audio and automatic transmission-identification service
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of tens of megahertz. Most transponders operate on a
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