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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. Communications Satellites - National Air and Space Museum

    Learn about how a communications satellite works and how it helps us to connect to each other around the world.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 …

  5. Communications Satellite, Iridium - National Air and Space Museum

    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 …

  6. Military Reconnaissance - National Air and Space Museum

    Military reconnaissance is an operation to obtain information relating to the activities, resources, or military forces of a foreign nation or armed group. It uses balloons, aviation, and space …

  7. 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 …

  8. Antisatellite Missile - National Air and Space Museum

    The U.S. Air Force began developing this air-launched antisatellite missile (ASAT) to destroy enemy satellites after the USSR demonstrated its ability to attack satellites in space. At the tip …

  9. L'extraordinaire histoire de Laïka... | Espace des sciences

    Comme le satellite effectuait une révolution en 104 minutes, la dépouille de Laïka aura parcouru une distance d'environ 100 millions de kilomètres avant de se consumer dans l'atmosphère, …

  10. What Was the Space Race? - National Air and Space Museum

    Aug 23, 2023 · The launch of Sputnik, the first satellite in space, aboard an R-7 rocket. (Smithsonian Institution) The Space Race became a symbol of the broad ideological and …