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Definitions of satellites in various dictionaries:
noun - man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon
noun - a person who follows or serves another
noun - any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star
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| In the 1945 magazine article "Extra-Terrestrial Relays", Arthur C. Clarke suggested these devices be used |
| Famous ones have included Telstar, Milstar & Navstar |
| Services like DirecTV compete with cable by beaming signals into the home from these on high |
| To transmit signals, these vehicles usually maintain orbits above a fixed point on the globe |
| The C band for communication via these uplinks to them at 6 gigahertz & downlinks from them at 4 |
| In 1984 the shuttle Discovery dramatically captured 2 of these in space & brought them back to Earth |
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In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an artificial object which has been intentionally placed into orbit. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as Earth's Moon. * In 1957 the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. Since then, about 6,600 satellites from more than 40 countries have been launched. According to a 2013 estimate, 3,600 remained in orbit. Of those, about 1,000 were operational; while the rest have lived out their useful lives and become space debris. Approximately 500 operational satellites are in low-Earth orbit, 50 are in medium-Earth orbit (at 20,000 km), and the rest are in geostationary orbit (at 36,000 km). A few large satellites have been launched in parts and assembled in orbit. Over a dozen space probes have been placed into orbit around other bodies and become artificial satellites to the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, a few asteroids, a comet a |
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