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- Three Ways Satellites Help Us Understand Our Environment
Learn about three ways that satellites have led to a better understanding of how we affect our environment
- Applications Satellites - National Air and Space Museum
In the tense years of the Cold War, applications satellites evolved down two separate paths: one devoted to national security needs, the other to civilian interests
- Satellite, Communications, Sirius FM-4 - National Air and Space Museum
This satellite represents the first generation of space-based, commercial radio service developed by Sirius Radio, a U S company (now Sirius XM Radio) Designed in 1987 and initiating service in 2001, the Sirius satellite system consisted of three satellites that provided more than 150 digital music and audio channels to North America Their inclined geosynchronous orbits were a distinctive
- Telstar - National Air and Space Museum
Telstar was one of the most significant communications satellites of the early space age It raised an important policy question: Should communications satellites be operated and controlled by private corporations or under government auspices? The United States chose government direction and created two new institutions, COMSAT and INTELSAT, to develop satellite communcations, an arrangement
- What Can You Really See From Space? - National Air and Space Museum
What Can You Really See From Space? 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 understand changes in the Earth's land surface Today millions of people are acquainted with satellite imagery on internet map
- Venus - National Air and Space Museum
Earth's natural satellite is the Moon, but many objects in our Solar System have multiple natural satellites Humans have also created artificial satellites—human-made machines and spacecraft in orbit around our Earth or other objects in our galaxy
- The Space Race - National Air and Space Museum
The Space Race grew out of a conflict known as the Cold War While not a war in the traditional sense, the two countries were in a state of military and political tension that lasted nearly 50 years and were involved in proxy wars such as the war in Vietnam
- Dove Satellite - National Air and Space Museum
The nanosatellite approach emphasizes simplicity in design, minimal cost, and in disposability and replacement, making possible the use of multi-satellite constellations for remote sensing and other tasks It thus represents an alternative to the use of complex, large individual satellite platforms
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