Satellite

defense system that used a nationwide interconnected computers (397). However, SAGE required a great deal of funding to be fully operational. The push for this extensive funding came in 1957, after the successful launch of the Soviet’s Sputnik 1 satellite. After the American public was shocked by what President Dwight D. Eisenhower described as the “Science gap”, the US government perceived an extreme need for missile defense programs such as SAGE, and further allocated funds to allow for…

Satellites, everyone depend on them more than you think. Many of the things on phones need satellites, they give you TV, and give weather forecasts. But they also do more than everyday things, they protect everyone from forest fires, oil spills, and air pollution by monitoring land and helping to distribute needed measures. And now these necessities of our lives are being threatened by the want to militarize space. This so called “evolutionary stage” must be stopped as it will start a new arms…

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM The Global Positioning System (GPS) also called NAVSTAR is a satellite-based navigation system made up of at least 24 satellites. The U.S. Department of Defense (USDOD) originally put the satellites into space for military use, yet they were made accessible for civilian use in the 1980s. It is comprised of satellites, ground stations, and receivers. These satellites can tell the exact location where someone is situated. GPS works in any climate conditions, anyplace on…

When the world launched the first object/satellite into earth, they probably were not anticipating how cluttered and dangerous it would become about sixty years later. Space debris has been a very popular subject over the last couple of decades. To be more specific, orbital debris is what this paper will mostly look at because that is mostly man-made objects that we have propelled into space and left there for years. These objects such as retired satellites and rockets orbit around in the low…

of space to hold whatever celestial bodies or satellites it may encounter, but like Earth’s population, there are always limits on space. NASA states that there are over 21,000 objects in Earth’s orbit today that can be considered debris over ten centimeters (Stansbery). Scientists worry about these objects colliding with one another. Collision could cause a major snowball effect that could end up damaging an important satellite or group of satellites that provide us with our everyday…

handle the already growing space debris problem today. Space debris, in this context, is all of the bits of destroyed man-made technology left in space, some of which fall into orbit. While in orbit, this space debris poses massive risks to active satellites or other spacecraft. Some efforts are being made to reduce the volume of debris but they may not be enough. It is entirely possible that a chain reaction has already begun and it is too late…

Armstrong once said “I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.” NASA has been sending satellites, space shuttles, people, and many other things into space ever since they were first created, but sending all those things into space isn’t the only thing that NASA has done, they have also done as much as they can to help the people.…

nevertheless, sought to encroach on Americas claims.This was evidential in the series of launches that Russia launched in outer space during the 1950s. “On the morning of October 4, 1957, Sputnik I became the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. The Soviet satellite was approximately the size of a basketball and weighed just 184 pounds (83.6 kilograms).” Then “Just as Americans started to get used to the incessant "beep ... beep . beep: ' and just as they were getting accustomed to the…

one knows what kind of changes will appear or if it will impact out planet. Introduction Space junk is an assortment of waste and debris that includes derelict satellites, pieces of busted up rockets and other defunct objects floating around Earth’s orbit. Orbital debris can be made intentionally like destroying a weather satellite using a ballistic missile (United Nations 3). On the other…

a 23-inch-diameter, 183-pound ball containing a radio transmitter, into space” (Bowles and Kaplan, 2012, paragraph 7). The Sputnik I was known as the first artificial satellite. It was involved in the orbit and the Earth. It was also a part of the Soviet Union. The first person reached satellite in 1957. The size of the satellite was not very large. The Sputnik traveled above the Earth’s surface. According to Bowles and Kaplan, “from the Soviet Union’s successful orbit of Sputnik in 1957 to…