Orbita 2854213 201735148 2008-03-29T03:10:53Z 71.103.71.151 {{otheruses|Orbita, Spain}} '''Orbita''' is a Soviet-Russian [[system]] of broadcasting and delivering [[TV]] signals via satellites. It is considered to be first ever national [[television network|network]] of [[satellite television]]. The Orbita system is based on [[communication satellite]]s in highly elliptical [[Molniya orbit]]s, as well as on many ground [[downlink]] TV stations for reception and relaying TV [[Signalling (telecommunication)|signal]]s to [[Antenna (radio)|antennas]] of TV sets of many local areas. The full deployment of the Orbita satellite system took place on 25 October of [[1967]] when ground [[downlink]] stations of some cities of Soviet [[Siberia]] and the Far East began to receive regular TV programmes from Moscow-based [[uplink]] [[Ground station|station]]s via an artificial [[constellation]] of Molniya satellites. ==External links== *[http://www.fas.org/spp/guide/russia/comm/elliptical/molniya.htm Molniya satellites : the description] *[http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/mwade/craft/molniya1.htm Molniya satellites] *[http://web.archive.org/web/20041031045047/http://english.pravda.ru/culture/2001/10/01/16678.html Russian TV celebrates 70th Anniversary] *[http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/soviet-union/soviet-union390.html Communications] *[http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/AppA/Part1_14.html Earth Application Satellites] [[Category : Communications satellites]] [[Category:Soviet Earth satellites]] [[de:Orbita-System]]