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- Cest quoi un satellite - espace-sciences. org
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 ! Des satellites artificiels fabriqués par l'Homme et envoyés dans l'Espace au moyen de fusées tournent également autour de la Terre
- Ariel 1 Satellite - National Air and Space Museum
This is a replica of Ariel-1 satellite, the world's first internationally conceived and executed satellite The flight model was designed and built by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and carried six British experiments designed to study the ionosphere and its relationship to solar radiation, including cosmic ray, solar emission and
- TIROS Meteorological Satellite - National Air and Space Museum
TIROS (Television Infrared Observation Satellite) I, launched in April 1960, was the world's first weather satellite TIROS imaged large swaths of the Earth's surface, allowing forecasters and scientists to see directly for the first time the large-scale features of our planet's weather systems
- Communications Satellites | National Air and Space Museum
In 1958, President Dwight D Eisenhower used SCORE—the first communication satellite—to broadcast a Christmas message: "Through this unique means I convey to you and all mankind, America's wish for peace on Earth and goodwill toward men everywhere " The SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbital Relay Equipment) satellite operated for 35 days
- Applications Satellites | National Air and Space Museum
In the tense years of the Cold War, applications satellites evolved down two separate paths: one devoted to national security needs, the other to civilian interests
- Venus | National Air and Space Museum
A natural satellite is a naturally occurring object that is in orbit around an object in space of a larger size Earth's natural satellite is the Moon, but many objects in our Solar System have multiple natural satellites
- Explorer - National Air and Space Museum
The satellite is displayed in the Milestones of Flight Gallery at NASM Explorer-1 was the United States' first successful orbiting satellite Following the failure of Vanguard in December 1957, the JPL- ABMA group was permitted to adapt the Jupiter-C reentry test vehicle to carry an instrumented satellite into earth orbit
- Three Ways Satellites Help Us Understand Our Environment
A decade later, satellite imagery revealed a huge, depleted area of the ozone layer over Antarctica This confirmed scientists' theory and provided startling evidence of human impact on a global scale In 1987, production of these hazardous gases was banned by a unanimous United Nations treaty
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