artificial satellite
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Meaning
man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon
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A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunications signals via a transponder ; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth.
Asteroids and artificial satellites The International Space Station is an artificial satellite in orbit around Earth.
A statite (a portmanteau of static and satellite) is a hypothetical type of artificial satellite that employs a solar sail to continuously modify its orbit in ways that gravity alone would not allow.
And it was the first artificial satellite in the steps leading to today's satellite communications.
Earth's largest artificial satellite is the International Space Station.
The other object that flashes by is an artificial satellite main seeAlso On August 10, 1972, a meteor that became known as 1972 Great Daylight Fireball was witnessed by many people moving north over the Rocky Mountains from the U.S. Southwest to Canada.