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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. 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.

  5. 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 …

  6. 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 …

  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 …

  8. 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, …

  9. 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 …

  10. Sputnik and the Space Age - National Air and Space Museum

    Oct 3, 2017 · 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 …