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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 …

  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 …

  3. 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.

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

    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 …

  5. 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 …

  6. 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, …

  7. Satellite | Espace des sciences

    Quand nous regardons la Lune, elle nous présente toujours la même face. Grâce aux sondes lunaires, on a pu avoir des images de la face cachée de notre satellite naturel. Cette face est …

  8. Three Ways Satellites Help Us Understand Our Environment

    Aug 9, 2022 · Learn about three ways that satellites have led to a better understanding of how we affect our environment.

  9. The Space Race - National Air and Space Museum

    Oct 26, 2023 · The Space Race Begins The early years of the Space Race were marked by successes through headline making “firsts”: the first satellite, the first living being in space, the …

  10. L'extraordinaire histoire de Laïka... | Espace des sciences

    Comme le satellite effectuait une révolution en 104 minutes, la dépouille de Laïka aura parcouru une distance d'environ 100 millions de kilomètres avant de se consumer dans l'atmosphère, …