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The answer SATELLITE has 76 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of satellite in various dictionaries:
noun - man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon
noun - a person who follows or serves another
noun - any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star
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| From a Latin word for "attendant", it can be a celestial body that orbits a planet or a manmade object that orbits earth |
| Launched in 1962, Telstar was the first commercial one of these |
| The Iridium 9555 connects via this way up high & says it "works everywhere, without exception" |
| Designed by JPL, the USA's first of these is at the nose of the rocket in the 1958 photo seen here |
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In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an artificial object which has been intentionally placed into orbit. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as Earth's Moon. * In 1957 the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. Since then, about 6,600 satellites from more than 40 countries have been launched. According to a 2013 estimate, 3,600 remained in orbit. Of those, about 1,000 were operational; while the rest have lived out their useful lives and become space debris. Approximately 500 operational satellites are in low-Earth orbit, 50 are in medium-Earth orbit (at 20,000 km), and the rest are in geostationary orbit (at 36,000 km). A few large satellites have been launched in parts and assembled in orbit. Over a dozen space probes have been placed into orbit around other bodies and become artificial satellites to the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, a few asteroids, a comet a |