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Bookmark or Share- Communications Satellites - National Air and Space MuseumCommunications Satellites Help Connect Us To Each Other. With the invention of things like airplanes and jet engines, our understanding of the planet shifted: Earth was becoming one connected planet—one global neighborhood. Communications satellites played a major role in this shift. Connecting with satellites
- What Can You Really See From Space?A few non-military satellites can see objects down to about half the size of a car. Some military satellites can still see even smaller things. But that does not tell us the whole story. For most applications we need to see larger areas, which requires other satellites that observe at a different scale.
- Telstar | National Air and Space MuseumIt was the model for all subsequent communications satellites. Country of Origin United States of America Type SPACECRAFT-Uncrewed-Communications Manufacturer AT&T Dimensions Overall (Satellite with red antenna cover): 86.4 × 111.8cm, 86.9kg (2 ft. 10 in. × 3 ft. 8 in., 191.5lb.)
- Discoverer 13 | National Air and Space MuseumCorona satellites, however, carried cameras and film beginning with Discoverer XIV one week later. By the end of the Corona program in May 1972, over 120 Corona satellites had successfully flown and photographed the Soviet Union, China, and other nations. The capsule was made by General Electric and donated by the U.S. Air Force to NASM in 1960.
- Applications Technology Satellite, ATS-1 - National Air and Space MuseumLaunched in 1966, Applications Technology Satellite 1 (ATS 1) was the first in a series of six satellites sponsored by NASA to test out new technologies in space communications and, to a lesser extent, in meteorology and understanding the space environment.
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