Syncom

American  

[sin-kom] / ˈsɪn kɒm /

noun

U.S. Aerospace.

1. one of a series of experimental communications satellites that were the first to be placed in geostationary orbit.

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Syncom British  

/ ˈsɪnˌkɒm /

noun

1. a communications satellite in stationary orbit

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Etymology

Origin of Syncom

syn(chronous) com(munications satellite)

Example Sentences

In 1964, the launch of a third Syncom device allowed live television signals to be transmitted around the world from the Olympic Games that summer in Tokyo.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2017

Other communications satellites are even now in the works, including Relay, a joint NASA-RCA project that will be launched late this year, and Syncom, which will be placed in orbit 22,300 miles above the earth.

From Time Magazine Archive

The messages stopped when Syncom II swung south again and sank below the horizon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Syncom II developed some drift after it went into orbit, as was expected, but in the wrong direction.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Kingsport next ordered Syncom to fire its hydrogen peroxide rocket to correct the slow eastward drift, and actually days will pass before Syncom's delicate guidance apparatus will jockey it into an exactly synchronous orbit.

From Time Magazine Archive