You wouldn't want to live without satellites!
A satellite is a small object traveling around something bigger. The Moon is a natural satellite of Earth. A spacecraft launched into orbit around Earth is an artificial satellite. Since Sputnik-1, about 6,000 more satellites have been launched by 40 countries. Nearly 4,000 are still in orbit, and a...
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[Brighton] ; New York :
Franklin Watts, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc.,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- The first satellites
- Watching Earth
- Will it rain?
- Communications satellites
- Where am I?
- Astronauts in orbit
- What's on TV?
- Keeping track
- The business of space
- Space telescopes
- Circling other planets
- Space junk.
