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Bookmark or Share- Ariel 1 Satellite | National Air and Space MuseumThis is a replica of Ariel-1 satellite, the world's first internationally conceived and executed satellite. The flight model was designed and built by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and carried six British experiments designed to study the ionosphere and its relationship to solar radiation, including cosmic ray, solar emission and ...
- Three Ways Satellites Help Us Understand Our EnvironmentSatellites help us see our world in new ways. Here are three ways that they have led to a better understanding of how we affect our environment and steps we can take to help protect it. 1. The Hole in the Ozone Layer. In the mid-1970s scientists developed a theory that certain gases in common products—hairsprays, aerosol deodorants, and ...
- Military Reconnaissance | National Air and Space MuseumMilitary Reconnaissance. 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 technology and has played an important role in our history. The technologies used to carry out military reconnaissance are varied.
- Satellites - National Air and Space MuseumSatellites. A satellite is an object that is in orbit around an object in space of a larger size. Things such as the Earth's Moon or Pluto's Charon are natural satellites. Humans have also created artificial satellites—human-made machines and spacecraft in orbit around our Earth or other objects in our galaxy.
- Communications Satellite, Telstar - National Air and Space MuseumThe United States chose government direction and created two new institutions, COMSAT and INTELSAT, to develop satellite communcations, an arrangement that lasted for more than two decades. This Telstar is a backup spacecraft to Telstar 1 and 2 (launched respectively in 1962 and 1963), transferred from the National Museum of American History to ...
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