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  1. Satellites - National Air and Space Museum

    Apr 12, 2022 · 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 …

  2. C'est 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 …

  3. 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.

  4. What Can You Really See From Space? - National Air and Space Museum

    Apr 8, 2011 · 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 …

  5. 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.

  6. Communications Satellite, Iridium - National Air and Space Museum

    This satellite is the heart of a space-based communications system called Iridium. Conceived, designed, and built by Motorola, the Iridium system provides wireless, mobile communications through a …

  7. Military Reconnaissance - National Air and Space Museum

    Military reconnaissance is an operation to obtain information relating to the activities, resources, or military forces of a foreign nation or armed group. It uses balloons, aviation, and space technology …

  8. Three Ways Satellites Help Us Understand Our Environment

    Aug 9, 2022 · A young male manta ray with a satellite tag in southern Florida. The tag is attached in a safe manner, so as not to hurt the animal or reduce its ability to swim. Image courtesy of NOAA. …

  9. The Missing History of the Explorer 1 Satellite

    Jan 26, 2018 · The bullet-shaped satellite payload, about 6.5 inches in diameter and 3 feet long, carried three micrometeorite detectors (a microphone, a wire grid, and metallic film), temperature sensors, …

  10. What Makes a Moon a Moon? - National Air and Space Museum

    Nov 14, 2024 · A moon is a planetary body that goes around another planetary body. Usually, this is one or more moons going around a planet, but it doesn’t have to be a planet. In Star Wars, the Death …