Labels:text | computer | screenshot | software | laptop | multimedia software | operating system OCR: Arts & Letters SpaceAGE A B C D E IF G H Satellites Illustration: Sputnik 1 I K L M N 0 P NOTE: Click on a letter in the keypad to go to a list of satellites beginning with that letter. Q R S T U V W X GOES-1 U.S. satellite (October 16, 1975). Geostationary Gallery Y Z Probes Operational Environmental Satellite was the first weather satellite in geosynchronous orbit. Gorizont U.S.S.R. satellite (December 19, 1978). Gorizont, a series of stationary communications satellite, used to relay telephone facsimile and television transmissions between fixed ground terminals. GRO Telescope U.S. satellite (April 5, 1991). U.S. Shuttle Atlantis (STS-37) launched the Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO), another of NASA's Great Observatories, into Earth orbit. The GRO satellite detects gamma waves, geosynchronous orbit A satellite with a stationary orbit. If a satellite has the same period of rotation as the Earth, it will remain over the same point on the Earth's surface and appear to be stationary Contents Appendix Index Back Print Print Setup Exit
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