comsat

A communications satellite.

Noun

  1. A communications satellite.
    • Once a comsat is built, its traffic-handling capacity can be utilized […] - 1967, Arthur Charles Clarke, The Coming of the Space Age:
    • […] educating farmers and schoolchildren, according to the social scientists studying it, are sufficient reasons in themselves to purchase a comsat. - 1977, New Scientist:
    • The suborbital, though, had a direct feed to a comsat, and the channel ought to be secure. - 1998, Ian Douglas, Semper Mars:

Origin

Shortening.

Forms

comsats