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- Satellites - National Air and Space Museum
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 These types of satellites have fundamentally changed humanity—such as connecting us with
- Cest quoi un satellite ? | Espace des sciences
C'est quoi un satellite ? GRANDES QUESTIONS C'est un objet qui tourne autour d'une planète Il peut tourner autour de la Terre … ou d'une autre planète ! La Lune est le seul satellite naturel de notre planète Terre Mais par exemple, Mars en possède 2 et Jupiter plus de 60 !
- Communications Satellites - National Air and Space Museum
Learn about how a communications satellite works and how it helps us to connect to each other around the world
- Telstar - National Air and Space Museum
Telstar, launched in 1962, was the first active communications satellite: it received microwave signals from ground stations and retransmitted them across vast distances back to Earth
- What Can You Really See From Space? - National Air and Space Museum
Most people know that satellites in orbit do useful things such as collect images of the Earth's surface At the National Air and Space Museum I use satellite images in my job to understand changes in the Earth's land surface
- Le lancement de Spoutnik | Espace des sciences
Le 4 octobre 1957 marquait le lancement du satellite Spoutnik Cinquante ans après, l'équipe du planétarium fête l'événement durant quatre séances 50 ans de l'histoire de la conquête spatiale Spoutnik signifie « compagnon de voyage » en russe
- Antisatellite Missile - National Air and Space Museum
The U S Air Force began developing this air-launched antisatellite missile (ASAT) to destroy enemy satellites after the USSR demonstrated its ability to attack satellites in space At the tip of this two-stage missile was a Miniature Homing Vehicle (MHV) Once it separated from the missile, the MHV homed in and destroyed a satellite by direct collision, rather than by detonation of a warhead
- Sputnik and the Space Age - National Air and Space Museum
Sputnik, the world’s first human-made satellite of the Earth, was launched on October 4, 1957, marking the beginning of the Space Age and the modern world in which we live today
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