Satellites


Do you like talking with your friends and family? Do you like eating that perfect bowl of chocolate cereal? Do you like the GPS because you get lost a lot? Well then you should love satellites, well all of this and more is possible because of satellites (“National Geographic”).Satellites have improved our lives and are the reason you don’t get lost on your road trip with your family.The satellite is the reason you can eat that yummy cereal in the morning. They not only help us humans but also everything around us. From the polar bears in the Arctic to the mountains you go trekking with your friends.But what is a satellite? A satellite is an object that orbits (circles) a larger object. But there are two types of satellites, man made like the International Space Station which orbits the earth. And natural like the Moon which also orbits the earth and is one of the reasons life on earth thrives. So as you can see, satellites are very important.




Fun Facts About Satellites


  1. Satellites travel at 18,000 miles per hour. That means in a given day, satellites can travel the entire circumference of the Earth about 14 times.

  2. If you put all of the data that our satellites collect in a year on DVDs, it would form a stack nearly 4 times the height of the Empire State Building.

  3. A satellite gets better fuel economy than a PRIUS.

  4. There are over 2,500 satellites in orbit around the Earth.
  5. In addition to being used for defense and intelligence, satellite imagery has many innovative uses in the environmental, economic, entertainment and humanitarian sectors.