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RTR Indirect Technologies: Introductory Satellite Training
Hubble Space Telescope:
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A powerful optical telescope that takes images of celestial bodies for scientific research.
http://curiosity.discovery.com/topic/quantummechanics-theories-and-concepts/hubble-spacetelescope-pictures.htm
GPS Satellite Network:
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A network of satellites that provides navigation information (maps, directions)
http://en.loadtr.com/GPS_Satellite_Syste
m-410743.htm
WMAP Satellite:
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Uses microwave radio receivers to provide a detailed picture of the energy released during
the early formation of the universe
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/media/990387
/990387_1280.jpg
Landsat Satellite:
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Landsat satellites take digital images of Earth, which help people study the planet’s features,
resources, and patterns of change
http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/lg_jp
g/landsat7_orbit2.jpg
Tiros 1 Satellite:
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The first successful weather satellite
Was designed to test technologies that took television footage of weather patterns
http://movablebeast.com/?attachment_id=
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Milstar Satellite System:
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Millstar is a series of advanced US military communications satellites designed to provide
global jam-resistant communications for military users
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/milstar.h
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Telstar Satellite System:
http://glostransporthistory.visitgloucestershire.co.uk/telstar.htm
Telstar satellites successfully relayed the first television pictures, telephone calls, fax images
through space and provided the first live transatlantic television feed.
RTR Indirect Technologies: Introductory Satellite Training
Earth’s Moon:
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Earth’s moon is the 5th largest moon in the solar system.
Earth only has one moon, unlike many other planets in its solar system.
Earth:
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Earth is the third planet that orbits the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the
eight planets in the Solar System.
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Io is the innermost of Jupiter’s four moons.
http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/earth.html
Io:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(moon)
Dactyl:
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Dactyl is a small moon that orbits an asteroid called Ida.
Ida (large) and Dactyl (small)
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/images/ida.html
Epimetheus:
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A small moon that orbits the planet Saturn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimetheus_(moon)
Pluto:
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A dwarf planet that orbits the sun.
Pluto is the 9th body to orbit the sun.
http://nineplanets.org/pluto.html
Mercury:
- Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet orbiting the sun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)