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Satellite - Wikipedia
17 Mar 2024 at 11:12am
Satellite. A satellite or artificial satellite [a] is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body. Satellites have a variety of uses, including communication relay, weather forecasting, navigation ( GPS ), broadcasting, scientific research, and Earth observation.

What is a satellite? | Space
16 Mar 2024 at 11:30pm
A satellite is an object in space that orbits or circles around a bigger object. There are two kinds of satellites: natural (such as the moon orbiting the Earth) or artificial (such as the...

What Is a Satellite? | NASA Space Place ? NASA Science for Kids
16 Mar 2024 at 5:04pm
A satellite is anything that orbits a planet or a star. Earth is a satellite orbiting the Sun. The Moon is a satellite orbiting Earth. When you launch a spacecraft into orbit around Earth, that?s a satellite, too. This kind of satellite can help us learn about Earth and the universe.

How do satellites work? - Explain that Stuff
16 Mar 2024 at 9:11am
What is a satellite? A satellite doesn't necessarily have to be a tin can spinning through space. The word "satellite" is more general than that: it means a smaller, space-based object moving in a loop (an orbit) around a larger object. The Moon is a natural satellite of Earth, for example, because gravity locks it in orbit around our planet.

Eyes on the Earth - NASA's Eyes
17 Mar 2024 at 2:15am
Welcome to NASA's Eyes, a way for you to learn about your home planet, our solar system, the universe beyond and the spacecraft exploring them.

What is a satellite? - NASA
17 Mar 2024 at 5:14am
Article. A satellite is a body that orbits around another body in space. There are two different types of satellites ? natural and man-made. Examples of natural satellites are the Earth and Moon. The Earth rotates around the Sun and the Moon rotates around the Earth.

Satellites | National Air and Space Museum
17 Mar 2024 at 8:27am
A satellite is an object that is in orbit around an object in space of a larger size. Things such as the Earth's Moon or Pluto's Charon are natural satellites. Humans have also created artificial satellites?human-made machines and spacecraft in orbit around our Earth or other objects in our galaxy.

Earth satellite | Definition & Facts | Britannica
16 Mar 2024 at 9:22pm
Earth satellite, artificial object launched into a temporary or permanent orbit around Earth. Spacecraft of this type may be either crewed or uncrewed, the latter being the most common. The idea of an artificial satellite in orbital flight was first suggested by Sir Isaac Newton in his book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687).

Satellite | Orbits, Communication & Navigation | Britannica
14 Mar 2024 at 9:10pm
satellite, natural object (moon) or spacecraft (artificial satellite) orbiting a larger astronomical body. Most known natural satellites orbit planets; the Earth?s Moon is the most obvious example. All the planets in the solar system except Mercury and Venus have natural satellites.

What Is a Satellite? (Grades K-4) - NASA
17 Mar 2024 at 7:04pm
(Grades K-4) NASA STEM Team. This article is for students grades K-4. A satellite is an object that moves around a larger object. Earth is a satellite because it moves around the sun. The moon is a satellite because it moves around Earth. Earth and the moon are called ?natural? satellites.



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