--subdivision Orbit under names of individual artificial satellites, e.g. Explorer 1 (Artificial satellite)--Orbit
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Satellite Power Systems Concept Development and Valuation Program : Program assessment report statement of findings : Satellite Power Systems Concept Development and Valuation Program / U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Solar Power Satellite Project Division
Communications using an active or passive satellite to extend the range of radio, television, or other electronic transmission by returning signals to earth from an orbiting satellite
Communications using an active or passive satellite to extend the range of radio, television, or other electronic transmission by returning signals to earth from an orbiting satellite
Devices, manned and unmanned, which are designed to be placed into an orbit about the Earth or into a trajectory to another celestial body. (NASA Thesaurus, 1988)
The group of celestial bodies, including the EARTH, orbiting around and gravitationally bound by the sun. It includes eight planets, one minor planet, and 34 natural satellites, more than 1,000 observed comets, and thousands of lesser bodies known as MINOR PLANETS (asteroids) and METEOROIDS. (From Academic American Encyclopedia, 1983)