What Can Satellites Do

The soviet union launched the first artificial satellite sputnik 1 on october 4 1957.
What can satellites do. Satellites monitor ocean temperatures and prevailing currents. For the closer satellites engineers will use its last bit of fuel to slow it down so it will fall out of orbit and burn up in the atmosphere. Like every other machine satellites do not last. A satellite is a moon planet or machine that orbits a planet or star.
In the context of spaceflight a satellite is an object that has been intentionally placed into orbit these objects are called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as earth s moon. Two things can happen to old satellites. Data acquired by satellite borne radars were able to show sea levels have been rising by three mm a year over the last decade. For example there are currently satellites orbiting the moon the sun and several other planets including mercury venus mars and saturn.
Why can t noaa s satellites see someone s house. Further satellites are instead sent even farther away from earth. On 4 october 1957 the soviet union launched the world s first artificial satellite sputnik 1 since then about 8 900 satellites from more than 40 countries have been launched. Artificial satellites can be sent to orbit other planets too.