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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 !
- 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
- What Makes a Moon a Moon? | National Air and Space Museum
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 Star is not a moon because it isn’t a naturally occurring satellite: the International Space Station, the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter, or any of the telecommunications satellites we rely on in low
- 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
- 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
- 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 beaucoup plus cratérisée que celle visible depuis la Terre C'est comme si la Lune nous avait protégé de la chute de nombreux astéroïdes et météorites qui, sans elle, auraient normalement percuté
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