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What are satellites and what are their uses?
Satellites send television signals directly to homes, but they also are the backbone of cable and network TV. These satellites send signals from a central station that generates programming to smaller stations that send the signals locally via cables or the airwaves.
What do satellites do in the sky?
Communications satellites help us communicate with people all over the world. Weather satellites help us observe the Earth from space to help predict weather patterns. Radio and television satellites beam our favorite songs, movies, and television shows to Earth for us to enjoy.
What is the Earth’s largest satellite?
The Moon is Earth’s only natural satellite. At about one-quarter the diameter of Earth (comparable to the width of Australia), it is the largest natural satellite in the Solar System relative to the size of its planet, the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System overall, and is larger than any known dwarf planet.
What kind of jobs are satellites used for?
Satellites are manmade objects put into orbit. They often affect our lives without our realizing it: they make us safer, provide modern conveniences, and broadcast entertainment. Here are some of the jobs satellites do:
How are satellites used to bring people back to Earth?
These satellite ferry astronauts to space and brings them back to earth. It has good grounding facilities and helps astronauts in accessing spaces stations. Recovery satellites are mainly used to recover bio, reconnaissance and other satellites back to earth.
What kind of information can you get from a satellite?
Satellites looking toward Earth provide information about clouds, oceans, land and ice. They also measure gases in the atmosphere, such as ozone and carbon dioxide, and the amount of energy that Earth absorbs and emits. And satellites monitor wildfires, volcanoes and their smoke.
How does a satellite work and how does it work?
Communications satellites are “space mirrors” that can help us bounce radio, TV, Internet data, and other kinds of information from one side of Earth to the other. If you want to send something like a TV broadcast from one side of Earth to the other, there are three stages involved.