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a rock or robot too committed to leaving to ever actually go.
means An object that orbits a larger one — either a natural body like a moon or an artificial machine launched to circle a planet.
from From Latin satelles, satellitis, meaning 'attendant' or 'bodyguard' — the hangers-on who escorted an important person everywhere. The astronomer Johannes Kepler borrowed the word in the early 17th century to describe the moons trailing Jupiter, which similarly seemed to attend their planet like loyal retainers. The 'man-made object in orbit' sense is a 20th-century extension, made household by the launch of Sputnik in 1957.
- orbital speed
- GPS sats race at 14,000 km per hour
- falling forever
- orbit is just missing the ground endlessly
- first one
- Sputnik weighed less than a grown man
- time bender
- satellite clocks tick faster than Earth's
- space junk
- dead satellites haunt orbit by the thousands
sputnik 1 — first artificial satellite, launched by ussr on october 4, 1957
international space station — largest artificial satellite, continuously inhabited since november 2000
gps constellation — 31 operational satellites providing global positioning, managed by us space force
hubble space telescope — orbiting observatory launched in 1990, revolutionized astronomy