Articles and Blogs on Satellites, ISS and Other Orbiting Bodies

Featured Article Satellites: History, Types and How to View Them A satellite is a manmade device meant to gather information and transmit data back to Earth as it circles the Earth, other planets or the sun. Because the moon and other celestial bodies that orbit planets are sometimes referred to as natural satellites, the manmade variety of satellites may also be called artificial satellites. A Brief History of Satellites While science fiction stories have been speculating about artificial space satellites since the late 1800s, the first intellectual look at these space objects came in 1903 with Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's book "The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices." In this academic work, Tsiolkovsky worked out a number of calculations and logistics about how satellites and other space vehicles could realistically fly and operate in space. Decades later in 1945, Arthur Clarke wrote an article for the Wireless World in which he described how satellites could be used as international communication devices. Satellites: History, Types and How to View Them			Blogs
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