3GPP is doing great work and evolving the 5G NR to support non-terrestrial satellite communication.
The satellite network is also know as Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) and it study started with 3GPP release 15 and evolving.
Enabling 5G system to support non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) has been one direction under exploration in 3GPP.
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