High above Earth, a new radar satellite is giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the ground beneath Southern California is moving—sometimes by just millimeters. Scientists are using the ...
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 …
Learn about how a communications satellite works and how it helps us to connect to each other around the world.
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.
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 !
Learn about three ways that satellites have led to a better understanding of how we affect our environment.
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 …
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 …
Sputnik, the world’s first human-made satellite of the Earth, was launched on , marking the beginning of the Space Age and the modern world in which we live today.