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📡Satellite Antenna Emoji
Tagged aliens, antenna and contact, 📡 satellite antenna sits in Unicode's Science Equipment group inside Objects. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+1F4E1.
What 📡 satellite antenna means
Lab work, experiments and anything framed as research, including the loose sense in which people call simply trying something an experiment. Most of the set landed at once in Emoji 11.0 in 2018, which introduced the test tube 🧪, the petri dish 🧫 and the DNA helix 🧬. 🔬 and 🔭 are older, and 📡 covers signals, satellites and reaching out.
Unicode tags this one aliens, antenna and contact and files it under Objects → Science Equipment.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F4E1 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 📡 | |
| HTML decimal | 📡 | |
| CSS | \1F4E1 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4E1} | |
| Python | \U0001F4E1 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDCE1 | |
| Rust | \u{1f4e1} | |
| Swift | \u{1F4E1} | |
| PHP | \u{1F4E1} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%93%A1 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 A1 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DCE1 | |
| Base64 | 8J+ToQ== | |
| Decimal | 128225 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- aliens
- antenna
- contact
- dish
- satellite
- science
Appears in these collections
How to type 📡
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “satellite antenna”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “aliens”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f4e1and Enter. - HTML — paste
📡.
How 📡 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 📡Apple
- 📡Segoe
- 📡Noto
- 📡System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 📡 satellite antenna emoji mean?+
📡 is the satellite antenna emoji, tagged aliens, antenna and contact. Lab work, experiments and anything framed as research, including the loose sense in which people call simply trying something an experiment. Most of the set landed at once in Emoji 11.0 in 2018, which introduced the test tube 🧪, the petri dish 🧫 and the DNA helix 🧬. 🔬 and 🔭 are older, and 📡 covers signals, satellites and reaching out.
What is the Unicode code for 📡?+
satellite antenna is U+1F4E1. In HTML that is 📡, in CSS \1F4E1, and in JavaScript \u{1F4E1}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 📡 emoji added?+
satellite antenna got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Science Equipment in Objects.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
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