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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
Applications Satellites - National Air and Space Museum In the tense years of the Cold War, applications satellites evolved down two separate paths: one devoted to national security needs, the other to civilian interests
Satellite, Biosatellite 2 - National Air and Space Museum This is the recovered return capsule of Biosatellite 2, one of several National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) satellites designed to investigate the influence of space flight on living organisms On 7 September 1967, Biosatellite 2 was launched with various specimens, including insects, frog eggs, microorganisms, and plants The primary objective of the mission was to determine
Ariel 1 Satellite - National Air and Space Museum This is a replica of Ariel-1 satellite, the world's first internationally conceived and executed satellite The flight model was designed and built by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and carried six British experiments designed to study the ionosphere and its relationship to solar radiation, including cosmic ray, solar emission and ionospheric experiments This first in a series of
Tiros Satellite Documents - National Air and Space Museum The Television Infra-Red Observation Satellite (Tiros) program was an outgrowth of the weather satellite program of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the mid-1950s In 1958 ARPA let out a contract to the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) for ten satellites In April 1959 the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA
60th Anniversary of the First GAMBIT-1 Photoreconnaissance Satellite . . . The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) launched the first GAMBIT-1 high-resolution photoreconnaissance satellite on July 12, 1963 It enabled the United States intelligence community photo analysts to see more detailed images
Explorer - National Air and Space Museum The satellite is displayed in the Milestones of Flight Gallery at NASM 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 reentry test vehicle to carry an instrumented satellite into earth orbit
Communications Satellite, Iridium - National Air and Space Museum This satellite is the heart of a space-based communications system called Iridium Conceived, designed, and built by Motorola, the Iridium system provides wireless, mobile communications through a network of 66 satellites in polar, low-Earth orbits Inaugurated in November 1998, under the auspices of Iridium LLC, this complex space system allowed callers using hand-held mobile phones and