satellite
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“Commercial satellite companies, which provide the government with services, have detected Chinese activities and have alerted us. Otherwise, we’d be clueless about a lot of what’s going on.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Analysts said satellite imagery showed that Saudi Arabia had expanded facilities for maintaining and manufacturing the missiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"If you take out the radio links then your satellite is very useless."
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Starlink V3 eventually “will deliver more than 100 times the bandwidth of our current 11,000 satellite constellation,” Musk posted to X on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
You could see lots of aerials and satellite dishes, and sometimes, right over in the distance, a glistening line that was the sea.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Photoreconnaissance satellites spy on what adversaries are doing.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The Air Force disclosure is crucial to deterring attacks on U.S. satellites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
While that’s a lot of cash to throw around, it also makes sense given the potential value of Starship, which SpaceX plans to use to launch Starlink and artificial-intelligence satellites into orbit.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
This, he says, can be a positive development - a way of removing space junk as well as knocking out working satellites.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
If the ring were not so close to Saturn, this effect would not be so strong, and the particles could accrete, making small snowballs and eventually growing into satellites.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing satellite
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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The Launch of Sputnik 1
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