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  1. 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 …

  2. 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.

  3. 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 …

  4. 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 …

  5. 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, …

  6. 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 …

  7. Dove Satellite - National Air and Space Museum

    The Dove satellite is a prime example. It uses three standard (10 cm square) building blocks. Deployed in a constellation numbering more than 150, the nanosatellites operate at different …

  8. 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.

  9. 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 …

  10. Voyager Spacecraft - National Air and Space Museum

    This artifact is a Development Test Model (DTM) for the Voyager spacecraft that consists of facsimile and dummy parts manufactured by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It was acquired by …