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 created artificial …
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 de notre …
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
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 understand …
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 …
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, the Death …
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 …
What Was the Space Race? - National Air and Space Museum
Aug 23, 2023 · Before Kennedy’s call to send a man to the Moon, the early years of the Space Race marked successes through headline making “firsts”: the first satellite, the first man in space, the first …
Three Ways Satellites Help Us Understand Our Environment
Aug 9, 2022 · Learn about three ways that satellites have led to a better understanding of how we affect our environment.
The Space Race - National Air and Space Museum
Oct 26, 2023 · The Space Race Begins The early years of the Space Race were marked by successes through headline making “firsts”: the first satellite, the first living being in space, the first human to …