Satellite truck

"A Satellite Truck is a mobile communications satellite Earth Station, typically mounted on a truck chassis as a platform allowing satellite transmission from any location that the production truck can reach, provided a line of sight (direct view) to the desired satellite is available. ... Typically a satellite truck will have its own on-board power source such as an electrical generator or inverter to create the alternating current to power all the transmission systems, which makes it a true independent mobile satellite transmission entity. Often such trucks also have various degrees of video production equipment and video editing gear. This equipment allows these trucks to also act as mobile electronic news gathering (ENG) facilities, or they can even be outfitted to do an electronic field production (EFP) to create an entire television show with multiple switched professional video cameras, character generators (CG) for digital on-screen graphics, video tape recorders (VTR) and video servers. ... Some newer generation satellite trucks are also being used for crisis communications and command and control centers for law enforcement (homeland security) emergency managers and public utility companies. The fact that these trucks do not rely upon terrestrial (land based signals received through a conventional aerial) communication systems makes them ideal for information distribution and bandwidth creation in the aftermath of severe tropical cyclones, floods, and earthquakes when these land based systems are damaged or destroyed. In the wake of hurricane Katrina, when the communication ability of news media outlets far exceeded that of many federal and state relief agencies, many governmental bodies have since migrated to a mobile satellite based communication platform." [Satellite truck. Wikipedia]