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Earth station vs Satellite ground station

I work for NASA and we use the term ground station. Does anyone know if there is a distinguishing characteristic between the two terms or if they really mean the same thing? Nasa-verve (talk) 23:20, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. There is no difference. Although ground station is more common parlance now, earth station is the headword because this article was borne out of United States Federal Standard 1037C, which used the term earth station. Ringbang (talk) 01:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am a radio frequency expert. My answer is as follows. Earth station (ITU RR article 1.63) is the official term agreed by national administrations of almost 200 countries. As English is one of the official ITU languages, if not the main important language, we are advised to use it. V.r. --HHubi (talk) 15:16, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I am not very familiar with the English, but I know that the ITU recommendations specify that^[1]

an Earth station is a station located either on the surface of the Earth or in most of the Earth's atmosphere and intended for the followed types of radiocommunications:
- with one or more space stations; or
- with one or more stations of the same type using one or more reflective satellites or other objects in space.

I.e. when we talk about radiocommunications with or trough spacecrafts, we must use the term Earth station. I could not find the exact ITU definition for Ground station, but I know that in Russian standarts, for example, the term "наземная станция" (lliteral translation of Ground station) means radiostation which does not use objects in space for communication. On the other hand, when we talk about applications other than radiocommunications, we can also use the term Ground station. For example, for GPS ground segment or for ground control stations, etc. Vsatinet (talk) 23:20, 16 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

^ RECOMMENDATION ITU-R V.573-5. Radiocommunication vocabulary, September 2007

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The result of the move request was: Move to Ground station - There are no strong objections to the proposal and "ground station" does appear to be the slightly more common name. Neelix (talk) 15:26, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Earth station → Ground station — WP:COMMONNAME, clearly Ground Station is more commonly used than Earth Station on Gbooks, Gscholar, Gnews, and Google regular. 65.93.15.213 (talk) 04:40, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Split the small amount of radio astronomy-related content into radio telescope, and move per nom --G W… 12:45, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose. Personally, I am used to both terminology, and I don't see a clear preference for either term. For example, in the Satellite Communications Systems book by renown authors Maral and Bousquet "earth station" is used almost exclusively while "ground station" appears only a few times intermittently. I don't really care about a move but I don't see a need for this. Nageh (talk) 20:17, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Rating for B-Class

I reviewed the article using B-Class criteria and have these comments.

B1. References are good but you could be more consistent in citation styles.
B2. The article provides a reasonable summary of the subject. A history of ground stations would be a good addition.
B3. Structure is reasonable.
B4. Writing style needs work. You should stay away from the use of bold except for the article title. There is too much use of technical jargon within the article. Topics such as regulations and laws need to be more fully explained or defined in the notes.
B5. Use of pictures is appropriate.
B6. The article is heavily biased towards American sources and needs to be expanded to encompass a more global experience.

Conclusion. A good first start. The article would benefit from a history of ground stations as well as a less jargon oriented writing style. There could also be more content sourced from other space faring nations. I changed the rating to C-class. Atrian (talk) 15:45, 23 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback! Ringbang (talk) 00:17, 25 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Article title

I am a radio frequency expert. My answer is as follows. Earth station (ITU RR article 1.63) is the official term agreed by national administrations of almost 200 countries. As English is one of the official ITU languages, if not the main important language, we are advised to use it. V.r. --HHubi (talk) 17:52, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, the appropriate action is to propose another rename to Earth station, not to start a competing article like this one. Unless there is a good reason not to, any new material there can be added to this article. Burninthruthesky (talk) 18:23, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Space tracking - a section on this would be good

I'd like to suggest a section on Space tracking within the article. Perhaps an editor with knowledge of this area might be able to do this? Tracking stations are mentioned in the lead, and Tracking station directs here, but there's no corresponding content outside of the lead. ~ Aliveness Cascade (talk) 19:23, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

as a Service

Microsoft Azure & Amazon Web Services have recently launched "Ground Station" as a service offerings, allowing ground stations to be rented on an hourly basis. This would be a notable topic to include in this primary article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iamcarbon (talk • contribs) 09:06, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] RECOMMENDATION ITU-R V.573-5. Radiocommunication vocabulary, September 2007

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