Mobile earth station



Mobile earth station (also: mobile earth radio station) is – according to Article 1.68 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR) – defined as "An earth station in the mobile-satellite service intended to be used while in motion or during halts at unspecified points."

Each station shall be classified by the service in which it operates permanently or temporarily.
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Classification
In accordance with ITU Radio Regulations (article 1) this type of radio station might be classified as follows:

Earth station (article 1.63)
 * Mobile earth station
 * Land earth station (article 1.70) of the fixed-satellite service (article 1.21) or mobile-satellite service
 * Land mobile earth station (article 1.74) of the land mobile-satellite service (article 1.27)
 * Base earth station (article 1.72) of the fixed-satellite service
 * Coast earth station (article 1.76) of the fixed-satellite service / mobile-satellite service
 * Ship earth station (article 1.78) of the mobile-satellite service
 * Aeronautical earth station (article 1.82) of the fixed-satellite service / mobile-satellite service
 * Aircraft earth station (article 1.84) of the aeronautical mobile-satellite service (article 1.32)