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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. 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. 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.

  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. 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 …

  7. Explorer - National Air and Space Museum

    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 …

  8. À Lannion, les satellites au bout des antennes | Sciences Ouest

    Sep 28, 2023 · Dans les Côtes-d’Armor, le site Météo-France de Lannion reçoit des données satellites du monde entier. Des informations indispensables pour la météo…Mais pas que !

  9. 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 …

  10. 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 …