The additional 1,280 satellites were approved for medium Earth orbits of 8,500km.
Bankrupt OneWeb gets FCC approval for another 1,280 broadband satellites|Jon Brodkin|August 27, 2020|Ars Technica
The effort will combine satellite images of agricultural regions with subseasonal forecasts out to 45 days.
Improved three-week weather forecasts could save lives from disaster|Alexandra Witze|August 27, 2020|Science News
Some cosmologists would answer that, today, with our satellites, we are making the required measurements.
Schrödinger’s Cat When Nobody Is Looking - Issue 89: The Dark Side|Daniel Sudarsky|August 26, 2020|Nautilus
The company has launched more than 600 satellites for Starlink, a high-speed Internet network that could begin commercial service late this year for customers in northern North America.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX gets a stratospheric valuation in its latest funding|Verne Kopytoff|August 18, 2020|Fortune
We’re poised to see more satellite launches with every passing year, which means more pieces of rocketry and spacecraft getting loose and zipping around at over 22,000 mph.
How to cast a wider net for tracking space junk|Neel Patel|August 5, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Thus the report on the Guy Fawkes effigies, which also was picked up by RT, the English-language Russian satellite channel.
Think Putin’s Bad? Wait for the Next Guy|Anna Nemtsova|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As a result, a satellite passing over a higher-mass region would speed up very slightly, and slow down over a lower-mass one.
Glaciers Lose 204 Billion Tons of Ice in Three Years|Matthew R. Francis|October 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Clooney heads the Satellite Sentinel Project, which monitors human rights abuses.
After the Wedding: George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin in Venice|Barbie Latza Nadeau|September 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The program, Satellite Sentinel Project, is designed to document and deter atrocities against civilians.
Meet Amal Alamuddin, George Clooney’s Wife|Lizzie Crocker, Chris Allbritton|September 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
All ISIS logistics and dispositions in the field are observable by drone and satellite.
How a Real Air War Could Demolish ISIS|Clive Irving|August 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There were other dark markings visible, and the satellite presented the appearance of a miniature of Mars.
Astronomical Curiosities|J. Ellard Gore
In any case it would be interesting to see whether the earth's satellite submitted like herself to its magnetic influence.
From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It|Jules Verne
The moon is a satellite of the earth—it follows the earth like the little lamb followed Mary.
The Woodcraft Girls at Camp|Lillian Elizabeth Roy
I knew not but that I might be metamorphosed to a planet or to a satellite; to be turned around in an eternal whirl.
Niels Klim's journey under the ground|Baron Ludvig Holberg
There's now even some belief that it's not a true planet, but one that was once a satellite of Neptune.
The Secret of the Ninth Planet|Donald Allen Wollheim
British Dictionary definitions for satellite
satellite
/ (ˈsætəˌlaɪt) /
noun
a celestial body orbiting around a planet or starthe earth is a satellite of the sun
Also called: artificial satellitea man-made device orbiting around the earth, moon, or another planet transmitting to earth scientific information or used for communicationSee also communications satellite
a person, esp one who is obsequious, who follows or serves another
a country or political unit under the domination of a foreign power
a subordinate area or community that is dependent upon a larger adjacent town or city
(modifier)subordinate to or dependent upon anothera satellite nation
(modifier)of, used in, or relating to the transmission of television signals from a satellite to the housea satellite dish aerial
verb
(tr)to transmit by communications satellite
Word Origin for satellite
C16: from Latin satelles an attendant, probably of Etruscan origin
In politics, a nation that is dominated politically by another. The Warsaw Pact nations, other than the former Soviet Union itself, were commonly called satellites of the Soviet Union.
Cultural definitions for satellite (2 of 3)
satellite
In astronomy, an object, whether natural (such as the moon) or artificial (such as a weather observation satellite), that revolves around a central body. (See under “World Politics.”)
Cultural definitions for satellite (3 of 3)
satellite
Any object in orbit about some body capable of exerting a gravitational (see gravitation) force. Artificial satellites in orbit around the Earth have many uses, including relaying communication signals, making accurate surveys and inventories of the Earth's surface and weather patterns, and carrying out scientific experiments.
A small body in orbit around a larger body. See Note at moon.
An object launched to orbit Earth or another celestial body. Satellites are used for research, communications, weather information, and navigation. The first artificial Earth satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union in October 1957; the first successful American satellite was launched in January 1958.