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Astronomy Satellites Astronomy Communications and mathematics have long developed together. Many early mathematicians studied the motion of celestial objects. The term “satellite” comes from the Latin satelles (meaning “companion”), which was used by mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler to describe the moons of Jupiter in the seventeenth century. Mathematician Giovanni Cassini correctly inferred that Saturn’s rings were composed of many small satellites in the seventeenth... więcej
Salem Press Encyclopedia of Science, 2022. 3p.
Virtually all objects in space are satellites of one body or another. Satellites range in size from galaxies such as the Large and Small Magellanic clouds in orbit about the Milky Way to microscopic flakes of paint in low-Earth orbit that have eroded from artificial spacecraft. In practice, the word satellite is reserved for uncrewed spacecraft in Earth's orbit. Crewed spacecraft are usually referred to individually by name, such as the International Space Station. Nonfunctional objects of... więcej
Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 3p.
