Satellites and Sputnik

Title: Satellites and Sputnik
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Satellites and Sputnik

Satellite is any object that orbits or revolves around another object. For example, the Moon is a satellite of Earth, and Earth is a satellite of the Sun. The man-made satellites that orbit Earth and the Sun -- highly specialized tools that do thousands of tasks every day. Each of these satellites has many parts, but two parts common to all satellites are called the payload and the bus. The payload is all the equipment a …showed first 75 words of 1834 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1834 total…the course of history and started the space race and it took technology to a whole new level. References www.fas.org/spp/guide/japan/military/imint www.eutelsat.org/satellites/4_1.html www.v8go.co.uk/information/space/satellites.asp www.heavens-above.com/ http://noaasis.noaa.gov/NOAASIS/ml/gateway.html http://home.global.co.za/~sputnik/network.html www.nytimes.com/partners/aol/special/sputnik www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sputnik

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